The recognize someone's identity It implies the action of identifying it, a fact that can normally be done by recognizing certain physical characteristics and peculiarities. For instance: "I identified the assailant of my house in a recognition wheel thanks to the tattoo on his left arm.”
Action of recognizing someone based on their particularities
On the other hand, the term identify refers to the fact that make two absolutely different, opposite things appear as the same. “I identify the beach of Mar del Plata with the humidity.”
Make two different things appear as alike, associated
In other words, this sense can be linked to the action of associating things or people through others.
Coincide with the sayings and thoughts of another
Another frequent use of the word identify allows to account for when one is totally in agreement with the beliefs or with the purposes of a person, that is, when something foreign is felt as one's own. “ I identified 100% with the character of Reneé Zellwegger in The Diary of Bridget Jones.”
Identify yourself through a legal document
Also, to the act of making one's identity known, especially presenting a document that accredits it, it is designated by the word identify.
It is common for official authorities in public places or spaces to ask people to identify themselves by displaying an official document as a preventive security measure, for example. "I have identified myself with the DNI before the security forces before entering the building.”
The national identity document is the basic element with which a person identifies himself in the civil plane, or in any other that requests it, in the country in which he resides.
It is processed in competent bodies and in addition to the photograph of your person, it includes basic personal data such as the name and surname, the fingerprint, the signature and the address where you live.
What is identity and how is it formed?
It should be noted, then, that the ID is closely linked to the identity, which are that set of characteristics of a subject or a community, while the aforementioned characteristics will characterize the group or the individual in front of the gaze of others.
Likewise, identity can imply the consciousness that a human being has about himself.
The identity of someone implies the characteristics that that person has and that make them be her and not someone else.
It is a construction that encompasses what they like, their ideas, their physical features, the perception that the person has of themselves and the social groups to which they belong and also those to which they do not belong and reject.
Identity is part of the integral development process of any person; Since childhood, the person seeks who he is, who he wants to be, while it is in adolescence that this personal search for identity is especially accentuated.
At this stage you will receive influences, of course, those that come from your parents and also from your groups of belonging, which you will be able to accept or reject in that self-discovery and definition of identity.
In adulthood, identity will be consolidated based on everything that has been decided to accept and incorporate
The absence of identity, a very common problem that occurs in the process of forging it, usually appears especially in people who are more permeable to the influence of others and who cannot find a direction or meaning in their lives.
This will make them very dependent on certain groups, because this node compensates for this lack of identity.
Thus, a person with little identity may be influenced by the group with which he identifies and will end up doing everything he has to do, even in the case of illicit issues, or that hurt him, for example taking drugs.
On the other hand and at the request of the psychology, the identification turns out to be the consistent image that the subject has about himself and that is made from beliefs, skills, among other issues.
Such an identity will be built throughout life, although the process is much more active during the stage of adolescence of the individual, as we have already pointed out.
And continuing within the context of psychology, but now on the path of psychoanalysis, the identification for this implies the acceptance of an attribute or property of another person, transforming into oneself; the different identifications of an individual do to the conformation of his personality.
