DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...

acting from their emotions – the emotions move you to act, your feelings are sources of information,
and if they are subverted in favour of external pressures for too long, then the inner world will become
unconnected to action, and action will not feel like it is coming from the self.
a sense of non-agency: a product of forces on self-as-object, not of desires
12.5.05
Ought Self – Ideal Self
Two self-guides. Definite push in the direction of the ideal self away from the ought self guide at the
time of crisis.
6/5/05 - Changes in the Self
1.
From
self-as-object: external locus of control
“It happens to me”
Self-as-subject: internal locus of control
“I make it happen”
To
2.
From
Self-as-static structure: identity as job or family
To
Self-as-process: self as latent potentials unfolding in the present – possible selves
3.
From
Proving oneself – competitive, relative self, impression key
To
Being oneself – developing sense of inherent worth, expression key
(linked to self-as-object, and self-as-subject)
4. – “Peeling back the layers”
Surface selves – persona
Core self – the “I”
From
To
16/5/05
MEMO
ESCAPE CRISIS – wanting out of something – not really knowing where to go next.
APPROACH CRISIS – really wanting something specific but no knowing how to get it, if going to get
it, or being rejected.
31/5/05
The narratives start with the suppression of the inner world, so the dual landscape is very apparent with
a hidden inner life and a “going through the motions” life of action. This inner/outer rift is slowly
healed as the narrative progresses, so that they are living authentically by the end, expressing the inner
world, rather than impressing with false bullshit
29/6/05
Build into the emerging model and theory the importance of loneliness and isolation that may
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