ABSTRACT
Levinson suggests that the breaking out sequence is likely to be the most dramatic example of the late thirties as a time of crisis. 1 Just at the point in which this individual is most eager to become his own man and fulfill his adult aspirations, he feels that something is fundamentally wrong with his life and he needs somehow to break out of this structure. In earlier periods of his life, he undoubtedly felt some dissatisfaction, but now, at age thirty-six or thirty-seven, he feels the urgency of the need to do something about it. His life, or a major segment of it, has become intolerable.
