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IDENTITY

People can use their psyche to ask themselves the questions: Who am I? What is my purpose in life?

The concept of identity is one of the most important basic tenets of my psychological theory. I define identity as the sum of all the life experiences that a person has had from the very beginning of their life. Their life story, their own biography is the core of their identity.

Put into a formula, this means:

I = I

The only thing that exists to the right and left of this equals sign is the respective human being: I am who I am. In this sense, each person is singular, unique and different from all other people.

IDENTIFICATION

The concept of identification must be distinguished from the concept of identity. Identification is when someone identifies with something that exists outside of themselves. This can be another person or a group to which he feels he belongs (e.g. Germans, Christians, supporters of a sports team, members of a political party or professional group, etc.). People often also identify with what they own: their house, their car, their clothes, their smartphone ...