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APPENDIX VIIB (Contd.)

ERIKSON - concepts of ego-identity/ego-diffusion in individual identity

Erikson provides a typology for studying not only identity
formation, resulting in ego-identity, but also a situation where
the formation of identity fails to take place, resulting in identity
diffusion. The work of de Levita and others in Erikson’s tradition
will be used in this area.

Erikson outlines the following characteristics of Ego-Identity
and Identity-Diffusion.

Identity-Diffusion

DISTRUST
need for immediate gratification

LACK of AUTONOMY

GUILT

INFERIORITY

FEELING OF BEING A NON-PERSON

EXPECTATION OF REJECTION

DISBELIEF OF POSSIBILITY OF COMPLETING

ANYTHING OF VALUE

STRAIN TOWARDS DELINQUENCY

STRAIN TOWARDS WITHDRAWAL

To these we may add

de Levita - FUNCTIONAL CONSTANCY
standing in relation always to
the same world,the feeling of
occupying a place of one’s own
in the community

IDENTITY - DIFFUSION

De Levita gives the following characteristics of identity-diffusion
or experience of lack of identity accompanying interaction with others:-

* a painfully heightened sense of isolation

* a feeling of disintegration of a sense of inner
continuity and sameness

* an overall sense of being ashamed

* an inability to derive a sense of accomplishment from any
kind of activity

* a feeling that life is happening to the individual rather
than being lived on his initiative

* experiencing an engagement to others as loss of identity

* a wishing that parents had been different

* a radically shortened time perspective

* a basic mistrust

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