... about individuation and growth until his death in1961. When dealing with Jung's view of development, one must recognize the term individuation, which is related to his concept of personality. Jung thought that the goal of development was to expand the conscious awareness by letting the ego getting contact with the unconscious parts of the self. Since the ego represents the conscious sense of identity, a growth of it will lead to an expansion of the awareness. Jung perceived human growth and development as more open minded than Freud's description of the genital stage, which mainly is characterized in negative terms. Individuation is a process of increasing awareness that remains developing throughout the whole life. However, this theory is very rich, detailed and complex. The theory often deals with complementary opposites like conscious and unconscious and so on. Like Freud, Jung was a great writer. He often returned back to his old writings ...

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