I had in the past ignored this theory, but chose to give it another look because of it's mention in a recent thread. I got to the second question and again dismissed it. I have tried a few more times, but this theory....bugs me.
Partially because of the freudian relationships.
But probably mostly because I cannot answer a single one as having followed one path over the other path, nor completing a stage.
I would say that viewing these as paths, or forks in the road of one's life, ignores the complexities of the human psyche. A more closer analogy might be which side of the narrow path are you treading, or did tread, at a given time of your life. Sometimes we might walk towards the left side of the path, sometimes towards the right, and sometimes in the middle....depending on the conditions of that section of the path.
I recognize that the theory claims that each , but it still claims that Combine with the OP's question of which path did we take, and it just feels so...stagnant...to me.
I also have some issues with how to interpret the stages, its questions, and its choices. Even after reading the wiki article the OP linked. My attempts to answer them kept leading me to ask "Based on what criteria?"
(Note: With all that said, I am willing to consider that my difficulties in 'choosing a path' or 'successfully completing a stage', and glimpsing how both choices have played out in various portions of my life, may be related to the bpd thing.
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