Explored in the psychobiography Young Man Luther, it can occur during the conflict between cohesion and role confusion in adolescence  the fifth stage of psychosocial development.
Marshall Berman's "The Man Who Invented Himself" charges that this concept was created as nothing more than a convenient excuse for its own formulator, who responded with some "Autobiographic Notes on [this concept]" that revealed he never knew his real father. People experiencing this phenomenon enter moratorium and leave foreclosure according to James Marcia, who expanded this concept into a cyclical model. First observed in PTSD-suffering World War II veterans, it supposedly manifest when one figure yelled out "I am not!" in choir practice. Often ending with fidelity, this phenomenon discussed in Childhood and Society involves the ego losing a sense of temporal continuity. Explored in the psychobiography Young Man Luther, it can occur during the conflict between cohesion and role confusion in adolescence  the fifth stage of psychosocial development. For 10 points, name this psychological dilemma about one's sense of self, a term coined by Erik Erikson.
Marshall Berman's "The Man Who Invented Himself" charges that this concept was created as nothing more than a convenient excuse for its own formulator, who responded with some "Autobiographic Notes on [this concept]" that revealed he never knew his real father.
identity crisis [accept "ego identity versus role confusion" or "identity cohesion versus role confusion" before mentioned, prompt afterwards; accept Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development or equivalents before mentioned; do NOT accept or prompt on "existential crisis"]