Here children make the decisions as to what sort of person they will be. The grownups they come into contact with both in real life and in fiction offer them a range of role models to choose from. Using the limited resources we have at this age we write a fitting story. A story that will enable us to survive the environment and culture we find ourselves in. By the time we are six we have written our script, the story line we will try to fit our life to.

1. Identity
Cycles of Development

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. “Talks of mysteries!
Think of our life in nature...
Who are we?”
Thoreau

4. Cycles of development
Stage 4
• Stage : Identity.
• Duration : 3 – 6 years.
• Activity - Here children make the
decisions as to what sort of
person they will be. The
grownups they come into contact
with both in real life and in fiction
offer them a range of role models
to choose from. Using the limited
resources we have at this age we
write a fitting story. A story that
will enable us to survive the
environment and culture we find
ourselves in. By the time we are
six we have written our script,
the story line we will try to fit our
life to.

5. Cycles of development
Stage 4

6. Cycles of development
Stage 4
Compromise Recycling After six years, Stage 4 is
significant
Without appropriate
guidance and
support at this stage,
we may grow up to
be unsure of our role
in life, or with rigid
views that limit our
potential
development.
Returning to this identity stage
brings up questions and issues
related to power and gender:
potency and impotency, magic,
creating or destroying, hurting
and healing. Adults recycling
this stage may change their
appearance, lifestyle or work
• After renegotiating a
social contract;
• When carrying out a
new role;
• When seeking a new
relationship to family,
job, or culture; and
• When caring for
preschool children.

7. Cycles of development
Clues for returning to identity
• Having to be in a position of power; being afraid
of or reluctant to use power.
• Unsure of personal adequacy.
• Frequently comparing oneself to others and
needing to come off better.
• Identity confusion—needing to define oneself
by a job or a relationship.
• Feeling driven to achieve.
• Overuse of outlandish dress or behaviour.
• Wanting or expecting magical solutions or
effects.

8. Summary of identity stage
• Ego state : Super natural child.
• Activity : Transforming energy.
• Functional Metaphor : Transformer.
• Psychoanalytic equivalent : Genital.
• Needs : Adequate external supply lines maintained
while testing power.
• Problem solving procedure : Let’s pretend.
• Games : Mine is bigger than yours, lets you and him
fight.
• Mechanism : Conversion.
• Injunctions : Eat your heart our, Don’t be sane, Don’t be
powerful.

9. References

10. Thank You

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