Introduction to Individuation. INDIVIDUATION: development of one's individual personality through a bringing-to-consciousness and assimilation of unconscious tendencies (both complexes of the personal unconscious and archetypes of the collective unconscious).
Individuation is both a goal (one that will never be completely reached) and a life-long process with a twofold movement (see Wehr 50): 1. acknowledging that these unconscious tendencies are part of oneself, of one's personality 2. refusing to allow one's personality to be compelled by these tendencies through possession or projection. Individuation Jung.