The primeval question of ‘Who I Am’ has always been there but never ever as tumultuously
tempestuous as it is now in contemporary competitive milieu. This institution of ‘Identity’
is definitively in the storm of 3Cs – Confusion, Conflict and Chaos as modern social-culturaleconomic-
political milieus have sort of installed this urge of associations and dissociations
deep in populist psyche of people. For women, especially the modern liberated women,
who are buoying up and down in ocean of ‘unsettled’ consciousnesses and cognition, the
‘Identity’ issue; the critical ‘Who I Am’ question comes with precariously poised package of
3Ms – Mystic, Magic and Marvel…
Decades back, scientists had warned that future battles shall not be fought in open but
within minds of people, over multitude of identities and ethnicity. They insisted to beware
of the possibility that as the world would become more complex and multitudinal, people’s
perceptions about realism shall become more abstract. That would complicate life and
living, resulting in more conflicts and battles within individuals, societies, cultures and
outside.
At the very outset, this primary question of ‘Identity’ or ‘Who I Am’ must always be
assigned primary and proportionate attention as in modern milieus, the identity issue has
been dominating most perceptions and shaping major realism. As abstractions rule the
roost in contemporaneous cultures; clear, unemotionally objective and singularly logical
understanding and acceptance of the identity-issue is of core importance. For modern
women, somehow, it is a challenge, though gender-neutral but more pernicious on their
side of the wall…
As a rule, psychology should facilitate clarity and definitiveness, but often, the populist and
un-academic psychologies often complicate and confuse things. This core and critical issue
of ‘Identity’ meets with the same destiny in the hands of contemporary psychology.
Somehow, populist psychology does the reverse – instead of making an understanding
unemotionally objective, it itself adds loads of emotionalism and subjective stupidities to
an issue or idea at hand. Identity issue is worst hit.
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