Adolescents and Separation-Individuation

one way that psychological theorists have described this process of change is separation-individuation. This term speaks directly to the process that entails adolescents removing themselves from parental structure and forming their own, unique identity. In some ways, this process may be viewed as a synthesis in the strict Hegelian tradition. For Hegel, and later Marx, both of which have direct relationships within psychological theory, the process of becoming through patterns of argumentation is called dialectics. The relation to separation-individuation comes when viewed as a process. As a child, one works within a thesis. Society, socialization, parental authority, all act in congruence to give messages of authority. The antithesis comes about as the child matures, and becomes more real in adolescence because it often appears psychologically as the counter-argument. Finally, synthesis may be termed individuation in that it combines both the thesis and antithesis in order to form a unique experienc

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type of healing process that further exacerbates the synthesis of individuation theory. Throughout the experience of separation, both the parent and adolescent must replace component parts of the comfortable pattern of relationship with new forms of expression. In the same vein, this may very well be a painful experience for both parties, in that the inconsistencies and partialities so tuned by childhood are no longer workable within the parent-child relationship (Peel, 1971). For Alvin Toffler (1970, 1980), society and its cultural and intellectual perspectives are emerging through a series of stresses that he calls "Future Shock." As early as 1965, he coined the term, "to describe the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time" (Toffler, 1970, p. 2). Two major generalizations are immediately apparent about the phenomenon of Future Shock. First, Future Shock is not simply a potential danger, but is a "real sickness from which increasingly large numbers already suffer. This psychobiological condition can be described in [both] medical and psychiatric terms. It is the disease of change" (Toffler, 1570, p. 2). Second, and perhaps most importa
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