Individuation:
Carl Gustav Jung thought that the process of individuation (natural and cultural) involved a search into the self beyond the ego. The search could include exploration of dreams, therapy, religion serious questioning of the norms and values of society that could result in a kind of acceptance in the person of who he/she is. In my opinion, that indiduation process is differential in initiation and inference in solution.
Lindblom
According to Jung, the Ego - the "I" or self-conscious faculty - has four inseperable functions, four different fundamental ways of perceiving and interpreting reality, and two ways of responding to it.
Jung divided people into Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, and Intuition types, arranging these four in a compass.
| Intuition Feeling Thinking |
FEELING evaluates, it accepts or rejects an idea on the basis of whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. According to Jung this is the emotional personality type, and occurs more frequently in women.
SENSATION means conscious perception through the sense-organs. The Sensation personality-type relates to physical stimulii."
"Individuation comprises the processes whereby the undifferentiated tends to become individual, or to those processes through which differentiated components tend toward becoming a more indivisible whole."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation
"Determination that an individual identified in one way is numerically identical with or distinct from an individual identified in another way (e.g., Venus, known as "the morning star" in the morning and "the evening star" in the evening). Since the concept of an individual seems to require that it be recognizable as such in several possible situations, the problem of individuation is of great importance in ontology and logic. The problem of identifying an individual existing at two different times (transtemporal identity) is one of many forms that the problem of individuation can take: What makes that caterpillar identical with this butterfly? What makes the person you are now identical with the person you were a decade ago? In modal logic, the problem of transworld individuation (or transworld identity) is of importance because the standard of theoretic semantics for systems of modal logic assumes that it makes sense to speak of the same individual existing in more than one possible world."
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Carl Jung
"He considered this process of psychological growth and maturation (which he called the process of individuation) to be of critical importance to the human being, and ultimately to modern society.
To undergo the individuation process, the individual must be open to the parts of oneself beyond one's own ego. The modern individual must pay attention to dreams, explore the world of religion and spirituality, and question the assumptions of the operant societal worldview (rather than just blindly living life in accordance with nt norms and assumptions)."
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