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identity crisis en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson.

Meanings

1. A crisis of personal identity.
   • The postponement of homosexual behavior in men who know that they are homosexual can cause psychological anxiety and retard mature ego development. The same kind of identity crisis characteristic of heterosexual people in their twenties, in which one discovers, as Erik Erikson puts it, that he is "fatally overcommitted to what he is not," is found in the repressed homosexual. 1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 4:

Forms

Translations (12)

de Identitätskrise (crisis of personal identity) · fr crise d'identité (crisis of personal identity) · tr kimlik krizi (crisis of personal identity) · cs krize identity (crisis of personal identity) · fi identiteettikriisi (crisis of personal identity) · sv identitetskris (crisis of personal identity) · vi khủng hoảng bản sắc (crisis of personal identity) · id krisis identitas (crisis of personal identity) · az kimlik böhranı (crisis of personal identity) · fr crise identitaire (crisis of personal identity) · vi khủng hoảng danh tính (crisis of personal identity) · pl kryzys tożsamości (crisis of personal identity)