Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances

Evidence

Earlier failures to establish trust, autonomy, initiative, or industry handicap the adolescent’s search for positive identity, leading in some cases to extreme identity confusion and in others to the formation of a negative identity. Identity is something found not alone but in a collectivity and is rooted in one’s ethnic, national, or family past. It cannot, therefore, be separated from historical circumstances. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The identity of the demos was contested even in ancient Athens — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 26; Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 47; History as storying yields representational fields enabling identity-based agency — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 233 (+8 more)