Parul Bansal's Youth in Contemporary India: Images of Identity and Social PDF

By Parul Bansal

ISBN-10: 8132207149

ISBN-13: 9788132207146

ISBN-10: 8132207157

ISBN-13: 9788132207153

This booklet endeavors to be a research of identification in Indian city adolescence. it's excited by knowing the mental issues of conformity, uprising, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths’ look for id in the Indian cultural milieu, particularly the Indian family members. In its essence, the ebook makes an attempt to discover how in modern India the rising experience of individuality in early life is looking for its personal stability of relationality with parental figures and team spirit with social order. The learn questions are addressed to 2 teams of younger women and men within the age crew of 20-29 years-Youth in company quarter and early life in Non revenue zone. Methodologically, the learn is a psychoanalytically trained, method orientated, context delicate paintings that proceeds through narrations, conversations and in-depth lifestyles tales of younger women and men. total, the textual content displays at the nature of inter-generational continuity and shifts in India.

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11 See Erikson (1974). 6 16 Identity in Youth: Conceptual and Methodological Underpinnings clinical material and everyday observations. In his writings, one senses and picks up nuances of unconscious motivation, experience and expression of identity conflicts and resolution, its positive and negative elements, its developmental path and its social-historical backdrop. One of the biggest contributions of Erikson is his psychosocial theory of development in contrast to Freudian theory of psychosexual stages.

The object relational school stresses on the internalisation and internal representation of the relationship between the self and objects (primarily the mothering person and then significant others). The gradual separation of ‘self-’ and ‘other’ images as well as self- and object constancy is essential for autonomous functioning of the individual. Self-constancy represents a beginning sense of the self as separate from others, continuous in time and space and possessed of an ongoing sense of sameness despite fluctuations in emotions and bodily feelings or external surroundings.

Identity is meant to convey the process of meaningful relation between inner life and outer social reality. In explicating the identity confusion of young George 18 Identity in Youth: Conceptual and Methodological Underpinnings Bernard Shaw, Erikson provides a description of his crisis in the man’s own words: ‘I made good in spite of myself, and found to my dismay, that Business, instead of expelling me as the worthless imposter I was, was fastening upon me with no intention of letting me go’; .

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