The aim of this research is to identify the psychosocial development process and identity crisis problems experienced by the main character in the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. To describe and answer the problems in this research, Erikson's psychosocial development stage theory was applied.
The method used to analyze data in this research is descriptive-qualitative. The main data source in this research is the novel entitled The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. The data used includes words, phrases, clauses, sentences and expressions that are appropriate to identify psychosocial developments and identity crises in the personality of the main character. the data analysis was conducted through four steps, collecting, identifying, classifying, and reducing.
The findings of this research explain that there is an initial stage in the psychosocial development of the main character, trust vs. trust. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority. and a final stage, identity vs. role confusion, when the main character experienced identity crisis problems during his adolescence period: identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, negative identity.
Keywords: Psychosocial development, identity crisis, Lahiri’s The Namesake