Many times, we have heard of "Identity", it is said that each one forms his own. Some mention that we are like a unique mold, because when each one of us is born, that mold is broken and we remain in this world as unique beings.
But derived from that little word that we all know, or perhaps have heard, when someone asks us What is identity? How would you define the word Identity? simply an endless number of examples pass through our mind, without knowing how to explain with precision and we only say the first thing that occurs to us.
There are different points that describe identity, various traits that characterize us, such as character, values, etc., in itself something peculiar that works as a distinctive in us, that is, it draws attention and many issues are linked around it. Originally it arises from family roots through customs, myths, traditions, rites, religion, values, etc. that characterize each of the members of the group, be it family, friendship, work, among others and until the end we are immersed in society, but with particularities that make us survive in it.
In addition to this, it becomes even more complicated, when we have to focus Identity on the role in which we perform, the specific case of this work is legal matter.
From the above, it follows the idea of making Identity known in antisocial behaviors, observing people who commit acts against the law, playing to imitate a personality that is theirs, thus they hide their true identity, entering the matter of psychoanalysis in criminology, by studying your true self.
Now, to enter the subject, it is necessary to break it down by points and inquire, to obtain a better content and understanding; below I mention the following references to investigate:
“Identity is the answer to the questions who I am, what I am, where I come from, where I am going. But the concept of identity also points to what I want to be.
Identity depends on self-knowledge: who am I, what am I, where do I come from? of self-esteem: do I love myself a lot, little or nothing ?; and self-efficacy: do I know how to manage where I am going, do I want to be and evaluate how the results are going?
The self-portrait of identity. The inner eye of the mind creates identity with information that comes from experience in a life-long process. In responding to the Socratic suggestion: Know yourself and you will know the Universe, the mind reinforces identity by interconnecting experience, vocation and philosophy of life.
Loss of identity. If the identity crisis is not resolved well, an identity created by parents, friends, or authority can be accepted. The false identity puts acts, thoughts and emotions in contradiction, eliminates passion and lowers self-esteem.
Create the identity. To affirm identity, education must draw from within the potential that we bring at birth. The brain is a blank page to be completed with knowledge and experience, which builds its reality with the limitations of its perceptual system.
Achievement of Identity. Building identity consumes energy until it ultimately becomes achievement. Falling into a false identity is easy: assuming someone else's plans as your own, avoiding commitment, like a leaf blown by the wind or changing colors according to the occasion, like the chameleon, delaying the resolution of the crisis produces paralysis due to excessive analysis.
Culture and identity. Employee mentality. Little can be expected from a society where convenience is deprived of self-realization, whoever can for himself over values. Culture sets guidelines; a strong central power, articulates identity according to distance from the center. The culture of the function creates identities: I am an accountant, a lawyer, a worker. The culture of the task accentuates the project and when it concludes, disorientation ensues. The culture of the individual as the center of everything is the category of the consultant. "
Under this context, I am in total agreement with the way that defines identity is the "I" that we have; In other words, the "inner self", from the aforementioned, identity is acquired with all the information that we obtain over the years, values that parents teach us, education, friends, among others, all these characteristics go filling our mind, which serves as a choice of what we want to be, a choice of our actions.
Human identity
Knowing who I am is a vital need ordered also to the vital need to guide my life and give me a meaning: to be myself, what it tells us here is who am I?
Human beings can be similar or similar but never the same, so that each human being is unique and unrepeatable, identity, as it is a set of elements that define an individual. "
The id, the ego and the superego
Freudian psychological reality begins with the world full of objects. Among them, there is a special one: the body. The body (We will refer to body as a word to translate “organism”, since in psychology the term is more accepted. NT) is special in that it acts to survive and reproduce and is guided to these ends by its needs (hunger, thirst, pain avoidance and sex).
A part (very important, by the way) of the body is made up of the nervous system, of which one of its most prevalent characteristics is its sensitivity to bodily needs. At birth, this system is more or less like that of any animal, a "thing", or rather, the It. The nervous system like Ello, translates the needs of the body into motivational forces called drives (in German "Triebe"). Freud also called them desires. This translation from need to desire is what has become known as the primary process.
It has the particular job of preserving the pleasure principle, which can be understood as a demand to immediately attend to needs. Imagine, for example, a hungry baby having a tantrum.
He doesn't "know" what he wants, in an adult sense, but he "knows" he wants it… right now! The baby, according to the Freudian conception, is pure, or almost pure It. And the It is nothing more than the psychic representation of the biological.
But although the Id and the need for food may be satisfied through the image of a juicy steak, the same is not the case for the body. From here, the need only grows greater and the desires remain even more. You will have noticed that when you have not satisfied a need, such as eating for example, it begins to demand more and more your attention, until a moment comes when you cannot think of anything else. This would be the desire breaking into consciousness.
Luckily there is a small portion of the mind that we referred to earlier, the conscious, which is attached to reality through the senses. Around this consciousness, something of what was a "thing" becomes I in the first year of the child's life. The Self rests on reality through its consciousness, searching for objects to satisfy the desires that the It has created to represent organic needs. This search for solutions activity is called a secondary process.
The I, unlike the Id, works according to the reality principle, which stipulates that "a need is satisfied as soon as an object is available." It represents reality and to some extent, reason.
However, although the Self manages to keep the Id (and finally the body) happy, it encounters obstacles in the external world. Sometimes he comes across objects that help achieve goals. But the Ego captures and jealously guards all these helps and obstacles, especially those rewards and punishments that it gets from the two most important objects in a child's world: mom and dad. This record of things to avoid and strategies to achieve is what will become the superego. This instance is not completed until age seven and in some people it will never be structured.
There are two aspects of the superego: one is consciousness, constituted by the internalization of punishments and warnings. The other is called the Self Ideal, which derives from the positive rewards and role models presented to the child. Consciousness and the ego ideal communicate their requirements to the ego with feelings such as pride, shame, and guilt.
It is as if in childhood we had acquired a new set of accompanying needs and desires, this time more social than biological in nature. But, unfortunately, these new desires can conflict with the desires of the Id. You see, the superego would represent society, and society seldom satisfies its needs. "
After various opinions, I mention, our human mind is like a three-story house, which on the first floor we find a room called "IT", on the second floor is "THE ME" and on the top floor is SUPER ME.
Derived from this I create a formula to arrive at the IDENTITY, which would be the following:
IT + ME + SUPER ME = IDENTITY
The sum of each one would have an IDEAL IDENTITY, based on principles, impulses and what society considers to be “good”.
IT is the blank mind, which we acquire at birth, whose only thread that links it, is the mother's womb, the only memory contemplated and this is only carried out by primordial needs.
I is everything that we acquire by empirical experience, by senses, that is, the consciousness itself that makes us settle in a reality, is what does what the id wants, it tries to satisfy the needs we feel focused on a reality.
SUPER YO we find it constituted by everything that is good and bad, morals, ethics, the values instilled in us by parents or similar people, friends, religious beliefs, among others; it is doing what is good and stopping what is bad, it is what we all would like to have. IT IS AN IDEAL OF THE SELF.
These aspects are very important, because they lead us to the construction of an IDENTITY, remembering that it is the answer to what we are, or we want to be, it is our internal being, which is shown before a society with a very peculiar distinctive feature that each one presents In your daily life.
Now, after analyzing IDENTITY, I will focus on antisocial behavior. With something that characterizes Freud with his famous analogy between personality and the iceberg.
For him, “man is like a huge iceberg, only 10% is shown and 90% is invisible, hidden. This hidden part of the personality is what Freud called the unconscious, whose explanation he attributed a sexual basis to it. He came to this conclusion by studying hysteria. In his opinion, the unconscious keeps an enormous complexity, where there are the impulses that seek to satisfy themselves directly or indirectly, the unconscious motivations, the antisocial tendencies that they try to repress, the continuous struggle with oneself and with the environment.
That analogy when taken with a person who commits a crime, at that moment is where there is a lack of their true identity and an endless number of identities begins, with the aim of trying to deviate the integration that the authorities formulate, favoring them free from all accusations.
It can be mentioned that by maintaining a stable IDENTITY, it is because his I and the I supersede, are adjusted and do not collide with what society says; if it is the opposite case when it is not adjusted to a reality, we are in the presence of an Identity with an antisocial behavior.
Many of these people who present that identity, it is because they suffer an alteration in their personality, in their I, mixed with the SUPER I, by putting aside their values, beliefs, education, only satisfying their needs at any cost, without there being the super self to stop these behaviors against the law.
Those people who commit crimes bring with them uncertain identities, false by imitating others; By committing the crime they immediately lose their identity, because they leave behind all the knowledge they acquired through values, education, religion, friends, and as Freud says we only get to know 10% of them. Perhaps it is due to the fact that traumas, unpleasant experiences, illnesses, deviations are associated with their childhood, or they are simply linked and framed to an abnormal, antisocial behavior, and finally they fall into the loss of their Identity.
As a final consideration, psychology studies Identity, attached to personality, and each one creates their own Identity, based on three main aspects: innate experience, reality and values that society creates, to do what it considers "good", all because society creates norms and our IDENTITY has to be attached to the good that the State imposes on us.
IDENTITY, it is like drawing on a blank paper, what we are, we want to be and how it should be, to know ourselves exactly in our interior and not only 10%, but with seeing ourselves describe and show our true Identity; people who imitate others must have more fear, because they are lacking the famous Identity.
IDENTITY OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIORS, is simply being against our SUPER SELF, that is to say staying in the SELF, and letting negativity enter our life.
In conclusion, know every moment of you, every part that exists, the best that characterizes you, with your touch of personality attached to good morals, because we only have one and you must take care of it, so as not to deviate into an antisocial.
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