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2. L.A. Seneca, Letters from a Stoic (Epistulae Moralis ad Lucilium by Seneca) Harmondsworth, 1969, ep. 49, 2 and 49, 3.

3. Plato, The Politics, J. Burnet (ed.), Vol. 4, Oxford, 1962, pp. 415b, 540c, 537b.

4. J.J. Rousseau, Emile oder über die Erziehung, 2 vols, Langen-salza, 1907, Vol. 2, p. 15 (Emile, English translation by Barbara Foxley, London/Dent/New York/Dutton, 1966).

5. G. St Hall, Adolescence, Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, and Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, New York/London, 1919.

6. Ch. Bühler, Das Seelenleben des Jugendlichen, Stuttgart, 1967.

7. E. Spranger, Psychologie des Jugendalters, Heidelberg, 1949.

8. I have developed this thesis further, for all phases of life. in D. Lenzen, Mythologie der Kindheit, Reinbek, 1985.

9. L. Krappmann, Soziologische Dimensionen der Identität, Stuttgart, 1975.

10. G.H. Mead, Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, Chicago, 1934.

11. L. Krappmann, op. cit. Note 9, pp. 176-8.

12. J. Habermas, “Können komplexe Gesellschaften eine vernünftige Identität herausbilden?”, in Zur Rekonstruktion des historischen Materialismus, pp. 92-129, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1976.

13. Ibid., p. 96.

14. M. Gorki, Sobranije Sotschinenji w tridzati tomach, Vol. 19, Moscow, 1952; and in I.S. Kron, Die Entdeckung des Ich, p. 219, Cologne, 1983.

15. (Augustinus) Die Bekenntnisse des heiligen Augustinus Books I-IX, p. 26, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1921. (The Confessions of Augustine in Modern English, translated and abridged by Sherwood E. Wirt, Grand Rapids, 1977).

16. W. Wundt, “Die Tabugebote: Das Heilige und das Unreine”, in C. Colpe (ed.), Die Diskussion um das `Heilige', p. 66, Darmstadt, 1977.

17. Ibid., p. 72.

Perpetuated Youth and Self-sanctification: Historico-anthropological Deliberations on the Transformation of Youth and Concepts of Identity

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