But in the presence of a strong ego identity such manoeuvres would not be necessary.

Erikson felt that peers have a strong impact on the development of ego identity during adolescence.

Ego identity can become fragile when society defines a developing personality based upon superficial values.

"The basic strength that should develop during adolescence is fidelity, which emerges from a cohesive ego identity".

Specifically, we were debating how to modify my self-diagnostic protocols to accommodate a diminished sense of ego identity.

We therefore form our self-image and endure the task of resolving the crisis of our basic ego identity.

Identity crisis, according to psychologist Erik Erikson, is the failure to achieve ego identity during adolescence.

In addition, Corey postulates that it will be necessary for a therapist to help clients develop a cultural identity as well as an ego identity.

College athletics may form an ego identity for athletes as parents, peers, and even strangers give praises and accolades to athletes for their performance.

The royal we is used to express the dignity or highest position either understood as strictly hierarchical or as referential to an alternate "higher" than ego identity.

The process of identity formation seems to support an individual's ego identity as long as he can preserve a certain element of deliberate tentativeness of autonomous choice.

The stages were trust vs. mistrust, attachment, parenting style, ego identity, role diffusion, generativity versus stagnation, midlife crisis, and ego integrity versus despair.

Elsewhere, Erikson describes adolescence as 'the age of the final establishment of a dominant ego identity' and the point at which the future 'becomes part of the conscious life plan.'

Progressive strength in the ego identity, for example, can be charted in terms of a series of stages in which identity is formed in response to increasingly sophisticated challenges.

On some readings of Erikson, the development of a strong ego identity, along with the proper integration into a stable society and culture, lead to a stronger sense of identity in general.

The New Testament's "doubting" Thomas and Judas "the betrayer" could also be symbolic and descriptive of this internal battle between the Christ Self and ego identity.

Lidz explained his belief that a child's inability to achieve independence and develop a sufficient ego identity and a child's incapacity for intimacy were due to the defective interactions between the child's parents.

It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic, I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity.

Ego identity is the accrued confidence that the inner sameness and continuity prepared in the past are matched by the sameness and continuity of one's meaning for others, as evidenced in the promise of a career.

"Blessed is he who was before he came into being," is similar to other enigmatic statements commonly found in mysticism across cultures, referring to the benefits of self-awareness (knowledge of one's true nature) before development of ego identity beliefs.