 Part Two – Individuation

Jung calls individuation a ‘coming to selfhood’ and ‘self-realization.’ He says that ‘the aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest oneself of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other.’ Jung posits that the function of the unconscious is to compensate the conscious attitude, and that the two systems together form a totality called The Self.The individuation process involves allowing the unconscious to communicate with consciousness, and one main channel by which that happens is through a dream figure that is contra-sexual to the ego.Jung describes the anima as a means of relating to the unconscious, just as the persona is a means of relating to society.