habryka comments on What’s the best explanation of intellectual generativity?

[habryka]

Huh, apparently generativity has an existing weird psychodynamic definition:

The term generativity was coined by the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson in 1950 to denote “a concern for establishing and guiding the next generation.”[1] He first used the term while defining the Care stage in his theory of the stages of psychosocial development.