Psychoanalysis and on going history-erik ericson(in the american journal of psychiatry 1965)

hello. guys. happy new year.

ive some problem regarding these:

is this because right in written english?in sentence below. why the author has said so?

Identity
has become a term used so vaguely as
to become almost useless, and this because
of our habit of ignoring dynamics when
we describe normality. Yet, in any “normal”
identity development, too, there is
always a negative identity, which is composed

of the images of that personal and

collective past which is to be lived down
and of that potential future which is to be
forestalled.

next one: the gist of this?

We, thus, can never go
“back to nature;” but neither can we hope
for a utopian culture not somehow forfeited
to its past as rooted in the childhood of all
individuals and in the history of groups.

tnks in advance