PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Toilet Training, Melanie Klein, Carl Jung
26 Feb 2017
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What is identity: personal, social, identity vs. role confusion. We are someone else"s friend, sibling etc: aspirations. Identity crisis be: curiosity, questioning, exploration, everything that you were sure about, comes into question, we start hanging out with different people, try on different clothes, listen to different music etc . Identity diffusion: wanders around, tries different ways of being, for erikson this was not a good place to be in, reluctant to face the problem of finding who you are. Other eriksonian stages on the minds of adolescents. While currently in the identity vs. role confusion stage: adolescents have ideally just finished working through the tension of competence vs. inferiority, they are ready after adolescence to take on the challenge of intimacy vs. isolation. What is personality: there are different personality types, this is not the only way to think about it. What is personality? (cid:498)characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting(cid:499)
