Lets Talk About Our Preoccupation with Identity
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The current emphasis on all things identity reflects in part the nature of our adolescent society. By adolescent society I mean a society whose psychic energy is bound up in the developmental tasks of humans aged 13 to 21. The developmental tasks of adolescents revolve around identity formation and belonging as they attempt to separate from the #family to explore multiple narratives of self as they project themselves into possible futures outside of the family unit.We humans dislike voids, vacuums, and empty spaces because they tend to be the sources of anxiety and stress, and as the teenager separates from the family they experience a void of belonging and turn to peers to fill this gap. In an ideal context of secure attachment to parents, teenagers need not choose between family and (...)
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