Jung's Individuation

     "Individuation is the term with which C. G. Jung describes the psychological process of inner growth and centralization by which the individual finds its own Self. This does not mean to find one's own ego-identity, as is described by many modern psychological schools. By the term Self, Jung understands an ultimately unknowable inner center of the total personality and also the totality itself. This center can only be approached but never integrated. Our destiny and our health depend on it. In the various religions and mythologies it is symbolized by the image of the 'treasure hard to attain,' the mandala and all images of the inner psychic manifestation of the godhead."

       von Franz M-L. Individuation in Fairy Tales. Revised Edition. Shambhala, Boston, 1990.

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