Meaning of identity crisis | Babel Free
Definitions
A crisis of personal identity.
Equivalents
Čeština
krize identity
Deutsch
Identitätskrise
Suomi
identiteettikriisi
Bahasa Indonesia
krisis identitas
Svenska
identitetskris
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.