”In other words, Erikson’s book might help someone with the empathetic and intellectual level of a five-year-old.” Yes, that was a very nice worded academic in

”In other words, Erikson’s book might help someone with the empathetic and intellectual level of a five-year-old.” Yes, that was a very nice worded academic insult. Which makes the later sentence a bit hypocrite: "When faced with challenges to his work, Erikson claims that we are attempting to make out that his readers are idiots. Nothing could be further from the truth" Of course a psychologist is not using the loaded word "idiot" anymore. They still scientifically describe it and use more nuances. And in this case explains, how the poor readers were fooled by the big publisher. Ah those poor idio.. I mean, structurally mentally challenged persons.