PSYC 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Puberty, Totalitarianism
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All sameness and continuities are questioned again. Because of rapidity of body growth and new addition of physical genital maturity. Ego synthesis: alignment of individuals" basic drives (what want to do) with their endowments (what can do) and opportunities (what may do: ego = individual center of organized experience and reasonable planning. Individual way of mastering experience is successful variant of way other people master experience and recognize such mastery. Achievement that has meaning in one"s culture. Learn where one is in the universe: gradual integration of all identities, including past identifications and self images (positive and negative) Positive: what we want to become and are supposed to become. Negative: what we don"t want to become and are not supposed to be. The whole has different quality than sum of parts. Identity formation = restructuring of all previous identifications in light of an anticipated future: problem = over-identification with heroes of cliques and faulty identification with disturbed parents.
