The Quest for Identity Author:Allen Wheelis The changing character of man in mid-twentieth century America is examined in this influential work. Concerned about the relevance of psychoanalysis to the malaise of our age, Wheelis looks at the implications and consequences of accelerating social change and shows how the decline of the superego, the diminished unconscious, and the underminin... more »g of traditional values have caused new patterns of personal unrest. He believes man's old identity is not lost, but outgrown, and therefore, identity is to be created and achieved in order to endure in our time.« less