Identity and the Foundational MythPsychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress\nAuthor(s): Marcus Evans\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Karnac Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Phoenix Publishing House\nISBN-13: 9781800133884, 978-1800133884\nSynopsis\nThe concept of identity is complex and affected by personal and cultural pressures. No more so than during adolescence, a time when we endeavour to find out who we truly are as our minds and bodies go through many changes, we start to disidentify with our families, and we are exposed to group attitudes and pressures. For many adolescents, puberty can feel like an unwanted betrayal by their own bodies. Their changing physicality seems to pull them further away from the self they imagine or wish to be and they struggle to reconcile their physical form with their sense of self.\n\nThis book explores gender distress through the lens of early childhood development with a focus on and elaboration of developmental interpretations and correspondi.