Today in my Theories of Personality class (which apparently hasn't done much to teach me about how people think and shit) we started talking about Erik Erikson's theories of Psychosocial Development. According to Erikson, the Oral-Sensory stage is the stage where your Major Crisis (the thing that defines the stage and which you have to resolve in order to move on to the next stage) is Basic Trust vs. Mistrust, meaning differentiating between what aspects of the world you can trust, which you can't, and the degrees to which you can and can't trust them, respectively.
This is supposed to happen from birth to around 1 year of age.
At 19 years old, I feel like I've been thrown right back to this stage.
And then my professor sealed the deal:
"If you have perfect trust in the world, you're going to be often disappointed. Because the world's NOT perfectly trustworthy."
Fuck. Regression's a bitch.
Stay classy
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