I. Prologue -- II. Foundations in observation : A clinician's notebook -- On totalitarianism -- III. The life cycle: epigenesis of identity : Infancy and the mutuality of recognition -- Early childhood and the will to be oneself -- Childhood and the anticipation of roles -- School age and task identification -- Adolescence. -- Beyond identity -- IV. Identity confusion in life history and case history : Biographic I: creative confusio. (1) G.B.S. (age 70) on young Shaw (age 20). -- (2) William James, his own alienist -- Genetic: identification and identity -- Pathographic: the clinical picture of severe identity confusion -- Societal: from individual confusion to social order -- Biographic II.: the confusion returns, psychopathology of every night. (1) Freud's dream of Irma -- (2) William James's terminal dream -- V. Theoretical interlude : Ego and environment -- Confusion, transference, and resistance -- I, my self, and my ego -- A communality of egos -- Theory and ideology -- VI. Toward contemporary issues: youth -- VII. Womanhood and the inner space -- VIII. Race and the wider identity

1. Identity (Psychology)