Quotes About Individuation

at mid-life the process Jung called "individuation" begins in earnest. It is the process of making those choices that will express one's own unique answer to the problem of death. "If I must die someday, and I cannot do everything, then I must choose what I will do, what matters most, who I will be in the time allotted to me." Figure

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I concur with Adolph Guggenbühl-Craig's thesis in Marriage: Dead or Alive4that a marriage, like a person, individuates (grows and develops) and actualizes itself.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

How do you fill the hole? Only by becoming Whole, which means becoming fully individuated, which means fully integrating all the contents of the unconscious, both personal and collective.

Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

Spirit is often used interchangeably with the all-pervading, universal nature of pure consciousness. Soul is generally understood to indicate the quality of individuation of consciousness within that field of unbounded awareness. The mind is where the thoughts, feelings, and memories are projected and processed.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

The limits of the growth of individuation and self are set partly by individual conditions, but essentially by social conditions

When a person accepts the call of individuation to grow in self-knowledge, his or her ego is pregnant with the desire for gnosis. It is as if that person's ego is the womb for the conception, gestation, and birth of the Self. In

In the end, everyone can do without fathers

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.

Individuation is, above all, about being able to hear your inner voice or voices through all the inner and outer noise.

Following the thinking of Carl Jung, I see each life as an individuation process, one of discovering the particular question you were put on earth to answer.

To Jung, the purpose of life was to realize one's own potential, to follow one's own perception of the truth, and to become a whole person in one's own right. This was the goal of individuation, as he later called it. If he was to keep faith with himself, he had to go his own way: it would have been impossible for him to spend his life playing second fiddle in a two-man band.

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

It is not that female characters in the modern novel are characterizations of bad or limited people—although, incidentally, they almost always are—but that they are badly drawn, because the writers flatly refuse to apply the same complex of literary artifice in their character realizations to both males and females—out of habits that begin as a response to some terror that human individuation would make the female characters equal to the males.