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Sep 24, 2018 · Discussions of both senses of self-unity often rely on the concept of identification, which in its most simple terms can be described as an endorsement, acceptance, or authorization of some of one’s psychological attitudes in self-governance.
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The self is connected to core motives (e.g., coherence, agency, and communion) and is manifested in the form of both personal identities and social identities. Finally, just as the self is a product of proximal and distal social forces, it is also an agent that actively shapes its environment.
Jan 22, 2013 · Even today, argument rages as to what Hume’s view on personal identity really was. I have mentioned the Reid-inspired ‘no-ownership’ view of self, often attributed (wrongly I believe) to Hume. And there are views other than those I have expressed as to why Hume said his ‘hopes vanish’.
- Individuation and The Self, by Martin Schmidt
- The Self
- Individuation
- Collective and Personal
- Two Halves of Life
- Relationship
- State Or Process?
- The Prevalence of Individuation
- Anti-Individuation
- Self and Ego
Jung’s thinking about the Self and its dynamic of individuation separates Jungian analytical psychology from other psychoanalytical schools. He uses the concept of the Self to describe his understanding of who we are and the concept of individuation to describe the process by which we can fulfil our potential to become all that we can be.
In the Freudian/Kleinian psychoanalytic tradition, the self is described as a by-product of ego development. By contrast, for Jung the self is present before the ego; it is primary and it is the ego that develops from it. The self retains its mystery. We can never fully know or embrace it because we are dependent upon the relatively inferior ego to...
Individuation describes how this agency works. Jung saw it as the process of self realisation, the discovery and experience of meaning and purpose in life; the means by which one finds oneself and becomes who one really is. It depends upon the interplay and synthesis of opposites e.g. conscious and unconscious, personal and collective, psyche and s...
Jung (1935) stressed that individuation requires the integration of both collective and personal elements. The neurotic condition is one where the collective is denied, the psychotic where the personal is denied and archetypal inflation can overwhelm the ego. If someone is over concerned with his own personal affairs and status he is in danger of b...
Fordham (1985) described how individuation begins in infancy, but Jung saw it predominantly as a development in the second half of life. In the first half, one is concerned with expanding the ego and “adaptation to collective norms”, such as building personal social status. The second half of life is concerned with coming to terms with death, findi...
The self is relational. Individuation is dependent upon relationships with others. Jung went so far as to say: However, in his autobiography (1961), Jung presents us with a conundrum when he also states that the goal of individuation is detachment from emotional relationships. Emotional relationships he defines as tethered because they are relation...
Another area of confusion is whether Jung considered individuation to be a state, capable of being attained, or an on-going process. In Memories, Dreams, Reflections (ibid, p188), he declared that finding the mandala, as an expression of the self, was for him, attaining the ultimate. Jung (1961, p. 276) also cryptically refers to the ‘completion’ o...
How widespread is individuation? Is it universal and commonplace or aristocratic – a vocation for the elite? Of course this depends upon what we mean by it. Jung calls individuation an unconscious natural spontaneous process but also a relatively rare one, something: He also stated that it is a border-line phenomenon which needs special conditions ...
Our clinical work reminds us that the Self is not always experienced as benign and positive. It can be self-regulating and yet the experience of it can also be very destructive. The ego needs to be sufficiently strong to withstand the coming into awareness of aspects of the unconscious, which is the greater part of the self. Ego strength is depende...
It can be useful, in clinical practice, to think of the work as symbolic of the struggle between the Self and ego and to see the task as engaging with this individuation/anti-individuation battle of opposites. The ego, of both analyst and patient, acts as if it wants to remain in control, to expand and promote itself at the expense of other aspects...
Jun 21, 2021 · Research on self and identity has greatly enhanced personality science by directing inquiry more deeply into the person’s conscious mind and more expansively outward into the social...
Aug 7, 2020 · The key to understanding self-identity is identifying the transcendental structures that make a temporally extended, continuous, and unified experiential life possible. Self-identity is rooted in the formal, temporalizing structure of intentional experience that underlies psychological continuity.
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May 1, 2006 · Who is the person, or self, associated with personality disorder and its treatment? How are we to account for a self conceptualized in terms of schemas and representations, that at the same...
