According to Erik Erikson, Dina now must resolve the crisis of intimacy versus isolation. Dinah is now old enough to think about her future and whether she wants to find a partner to spend the rest of her life with or not. She needs to decide if she will be isolated from long-term romantic pursuits or if she will start looking for an appropriate partner to share her life with, which can be a daunting task.
a plateau is an area of relatively level high ground, whereas a basin is the tract of country that is drained by a river and its tributaries or drains into a lake or sea.
