title: The sense of identity and the role of continuity and confluence.
abstract: THE concept of identity, as it will be used in this paper, corresponds to Erikson's notion of psychosocial identity. It is a sense of "selfsameness and continuity in time" and of embeddedness in the "environment" (Erikson 1959, 1968). I will describe some of the factors which seem to be essential for the sense of selfsameness, and examine the manner in which continuity is preserved during transitional phases.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D012380:Role; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment