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The Playing Adult Steps Sideward Into Another Reality; The Playing Child Advances Forward To New Stages Of Mastery.

When Established Identities Become Outworn Or Unfinished Ones Threaten To Remain Incomplete, Special Crises Compel Men To Wage Holy Wars, By The Cruelest Means, Against Those Who Seem To Question Or Threaten Their Unsafe Ideological Bases.

The 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.

The Sense Of Identity Provides The Ability To Experience One's Self As Something That Has Continuity And Sameness, And To Act Accordingly.

Healthy Children Will Not Fear Life If Their Elders Have Integrity Enough Not To Fear Death.