ex-otico
8 vejez / old age
-Integridad frente a desesperación (desde aproximadamente los 60 años hasta la muerte). Esta es la última etapa. En la delicada adultez tardía, o madurez, la tarea primordial es lograr una integridad con un mínimo de desesperanza. Primero ocurre un distanciamiento social, desde un sentimiento de inutilidad existe un sentido de inutilidad biológica, debido a que el cuerpo ya no responde como antes; junto a las enfermedades, aparecen las preocupaciones relativas a la muerte. Los amigos mueren; los familiares también y ello contribuye a la aparición de un sentimiento de desesperanza. Como respuesta a esta desesperanza, algunos mayores se empiezan a preocupar con el pasado. La integridad yoica significa llegar a los términos de tu vida, y por tanto, llegar a los términos del final de tu vida. La tendencia mal adaptativa es llamada presunción. Cuando la persona “presume” de una integridad yoica sin afrontar de hecho las dificultades de la senectud.
-Ego integrity vs. despair. This stage affects the age group of 65 and on. During this time an individual has reached the last chapter in their life and retirement is approaching or has already taken place. Many people, who have achieved what was important to them, look back on their lives and feel great accomplishment and a sense of integrity. Conversely, those who had a difficult time during middle adulthood may look back and feel a sense of despair.
On ego identity versus role confusion, ego identity enables each person to have a sense of individuality, or as Erikson would say, "Ego identity, then, in its subjective aspect, is the awareness of the fact that there is a self-sameness and continuity to the ego's synthesizing methods and a continuity of one's meaning for others" (1963). Role confusion, however, is, according to Barbara Engler in her book Personality Theories (2006), "the inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member of one's own society" (158). This inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member is a great danger; it can occur during adolescence, when looking for an occupation.
8 vejez / old age
-Integridad frente a desesperación (desde aproximadamente los 60 años hasta la muerte). Esta es la última etapa. En la delicada adultez tardía, o madurez, la tarea primordial es lograr una integridad con un mínimo de desesperanza. Primero ocurre un distanciamiento social, desde un sentimiento de inutilidad existe un sentido de inutilidad biológica, debido a que el cuerpo ya no responde como antes; junto a las enfermedades, aparecen las preocupaciones relativas a la muerte. Los amigos mueren; los familiares también y ello contribuye a la aparición de un sentimiento de desesperanza. Como respuesta a esta desesperanza, algunos mayores se empiezan a preocupar con el pasado. La integridad yoica significa llegar a los términos de tu vida, y por tanto, llegar a los términos del final de tu vida. La tendencia mal adaptativa es llamada presunción. Cuando la persona “presume” de una integridad yoica sin afrontar de hecho las dificultades de la senectud.
-Ego integrity vs. despair. This stage affects the age group of 65 and on. During this time an individual has reached the last chapter in their life and retirement is approaching or has already taken place. Many people, who have achieved what was important to them, look back on their lives and feel great accomplishment and a sense of integrity. Conversely, those who had a difficult time during middle adulthood may look back and feel a sense of despair.
On ego identity versus role confusion, ego identity enables each person to have a sense of individuality, or as Erikson would say, "Ego identity, then, in its subjective aspect, is the awareness of the fact that there is a self-sameness and continuity to the ego's synthesizing methods and a continuity of one's meaning for others" (1963). Role confusion, however, is, according to Barbara Engler in her book Personality Theories (2006), "the inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member of one's own society" (158). This inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member is a great danger; it can occur during adolescence, when looking for an occupation.