Inadequate sense of personal identity

Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, religious education, homosexuality in the military, interracial adoption, politically correct body language, blasphemy, immigration, divorce or unmarried mothers reflect new challenges to identity. These correspond to tensions between libertarians concerned with individual rights, choice, freedom and enterprise, and cultural conservatives emphasizing group rights, traditional authority, family values and religion.

1. The old polarities between allegiances based on class solidarity and state planning, or those based on property rights, individual opportunity and markets, have now broken down. New divisions are centred on the ways in which people define their identity. People have a deep need to identity and belong which is unsatisfied by the traditional pattern of institutions and beliefs.

1. Uncertainty
2. Ambiguity
3. Alienation

1. Static and unrelated social roles
2. Social role-playing
3. Gender dysphoria
4. Fear of losing control
5. Elusiveness of male sexuality
6. Confused identity of womanhood
7. Anomie

1. Sexual repression
2. Parental favouritism
3. Lack of self-confidence
4. Forgetting one's purpose in life
5. Counter-dependency

1. Substance abuse
2. Soul murder
3. Social invisibility
4. Social breakdown
5. Restrictive social groups
6. Psychological conflict
7. Mixed race marriage
8. Ideological confusion
9. Forced separation of parents and children
10. Forced assimilation
11. Excessive intensification of parent-child relationship
12. Discrimination in adoption
13. Dependence on social welfare
14. Denial of right to a name
15. Deculturation
16. Conformism

1. Social discrimination

1. Psychological inertia
2. Memory defects
3. Lack of social identity
4. Lack of racial identity
5. Lack of national identity
6. Identity cleansing
7. Conflicting multiple nationalities

1. Managing personal life crises
2. Improving sense of personal identity
3. Creating ambiguity

1. Unsociable
2. Nonsense
3. Inadequacy
4. Crisis
5. Common sense
6. Ambiguity