Identity Crisis

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An Identity Crisis is a psychological crisis associated with unresolved tensions in ego identity.



References

2016

  1. Kendra Cherry, Identity Crisis - Theory and Research
  2. (Schultz, 216)
  3. (Schultz, 215-216)

2016

  • https://hbr.org/2016/12/make-peace-with-your-unlived-life
    • QUOTE: Similarly, Erik Erikson, another famous psychologist, introduced the idea of the identity crisis. Erikson, like Jung, suggests that identity formation has its dark and negative side. There are parts of us that are attractive but disturbing and therefore tend to be submerged. In the process of becoming an adult, we not only internalize what’s viewed as acceptable, we also internalize (be it only subliminally) parental and societal attitudes about undesirable qualities and characteristics. For many of us, these “undesirables” turn into “forbidden fruits”–things we are attracted to To feel more authentic, we may have to integrate these forbidden fruits into our sense of identity.