IdentityCycles of Development

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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“Talks of mysteries! Think of our life in nature...

Who are we?” Thoreau

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.

Cycles of development

Stage 4

Cycles of development

Stage 4Compromise 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.

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.

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.

References

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Other TA topics available on slideshare1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.

2. Games People Play - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/psychological-games-people-play.

3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is5. Cycles of Development -

http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.

6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557. 11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.12. Game Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/game-analysis-33725636.13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-33826702.