A Psychoanalytic View of Identity and its Crisis

Basic psychoanalytic concepts

Abstract

The phenomenon of identity in the common socio-psychological understanding is seen as a reflection of the understanding of self and the experience of collective belonging, expressed in the selection of individual norms within different categories of life: "as who am I?", "do I have enough qualities to consider myself as something?". The attention of the psychoanalytic view is not only on categories and norms, but also on the process of the emergence of subjective experience of identity. And the interaction of this experience with other experiences and forces within the mind and body of the individual. Consider the views of classical psychoanalysis, the Lacanian school, and the school of object relations on the issue of identity in order to relate them to the clinical picture of identity crisis experienced by clients of different personality structures. And to create an insight into the essence of therapeutic strategies when working with them.