Search for Identity in Upamanyu Chatterjee's the Mammaries of the Welfare State
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2016
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in psychological terms, identity formation employs a process of
simultaneous reflection and observation, a process taking place on
all levels of mental functioning, by which the individual judges
himself in the light of what he perceives to be the way which others
judge him in comparison to themselves and to a typology
significant to them: while he judges their way of judging him in the
light of how he perceives himself in comparison to them and to
types that have become relevant to him. This process is, luckily, and
necessarily, for the most part unconscious except where inner
conditions and outer circumstances combine to aggravate a painful
or elated, “identity consciousness”. (Erik H. Erikson 22-23)