Become a single, whole being. Become your own real self.

What it means

Individuation is Jung's word for the lifelong work of becoming who you actually are, rather than who you were told to be. It means gathering the scattered parts of yourself into one person. He also called it self-realization.

The source

"Become a single, whole being. Become your own real self." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. I 'The Function of the Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"Individuation means to become a single, discrete being, and, inasmuch as the concept individuality embraces that innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness of our being, it also includes the idea of becoming one's own real self."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. I 'The Function of the Unconscious'. Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "Become a single, whole being. Become your own real self." mean?

Individuation is Jung's word for the lifelong work of becoming who you actually are, rather than who you were told to be. It means gathering the scattered parts of yourself into one person. He also called it self-realization.

Who said "Become a single, whole being. Become your own real self."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. I 'The Function of the Unconscious'.

What is the original wording?

Individuation means to become a single, discrete being, and, inasmuch as the concept individuality embraces that innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness of our being, it also includes the idea of becoming one's own real self (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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