Definitions for "Individuation"
Keywords:  jung, archetypal, ness, ego, psychology
The process of forming and specializing one's individual nature. It is the developmental process of the psychological individual or personality
A primary theme of the archetypal journey of the hero, the discovery of the authentic self in all its complexity. See "self."
A process of differentiation, the end result of which is development of the individual personality that is separate and distinct from all others.
the division of the world into separate persons or things.
the process by which cultural and social structural arrangements come to consider each individual as a separate entity with separate concerns, especially in relation to group entities such as the family, tribe, religious group, or political and judicial institutions
the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality"
discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
Keywords:  act
The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization.