The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
Erik EriksonLife doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
Erik EriksonThe strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.
Erik Erikson