ABSTRACT
This chapter explores clinical stories of alienation and identity as they relate to immigration, race, and ethnicity. It presents what can happen with apocalyptic inflation within a psyche. The kinds of alienation in this clinical material, derive from social forces beyond an individual's control or influence. The internal prioritization is shaped consciously and unconsciously by our ideals, aspirations, social perceptions, educational opportunities, socioeconomic status, extended and nuclear families, and intergenerational dynamics. Identity confusion comes from not being able to resolve the multiple and simultaneous demands on a developing mind. Erik Erikson defines negative identity as when "the loss of a sense of identity is expressed in a scornful and snobbish hostility toward the roles offered" by family, school, and community. Many of the monsters commit murder as vengeful glory, although creating mayhem, through hacking that disrupts social contracts, is an expression of compensating for alienation through omnipotent, destructive fantasy.
