There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. First it was passion, then it became duty, and finally an intolerable burden, a vampire that fattens on the life of its creator. "The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious" (1928). Relationship can only take place where this distinction exists.The persona is also the mask or appearance one presents to the world. In the case of psychological suffering, which always isolates the individual from the herd of so-called normal people, it is of the greatest importance to understand that the conflict is not a personal failure only, but at the same time a suffering common to all and a problem with which the whole epoch is burdened. The significance of the morning undoubtedly lies in the development of the individual, our entrenchment in the outer world, the propagation of our kind, and the care of our children. There is an enormous difference between something that has remained infantile and something that is in the process of growth. "The Stages of Life" (1930). In CW 17: The Development of the Personality. A timely recognition of sexuality, for instance, can prevent that neurotic suppression of it which keeps a man unduly withdrawn from life, or else forces him into a wretched and unsuitable way of living with which he is bound to come into conflict. But we soon discover that this praiseworthy and apparently unavoidable battle with the years leads to stagnation and desiccation of soul. Growing in Christ: Week 1 Individuation Wednesday, March 20, 2019 I first learned about the two halves of life from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961). all the explanations still leads on illusion ,confusion and dont help heling. P. 762 P. 161 Individualism means deliberately stressing and giving prominence to some supposed peculiarity, rather than to collective considerations and obligations. In CW 17: The Development of the Personality. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers. Take for comparison the daily course of the sun - but a sun that is endowed with human feeling and man's limited consciousness. In CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy. The more intensely the family sets its stamp on the child, the more he will be emotionally inclined, as an adult, to see in the great world his former small world. In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.Besides achieving physical and mental health, people who have advanced towards individuation, they tend to become harmonious, mature, responsible, they promote freedom and justice and have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.A complex of ideas which constitutes the centre of my field of consciousness and appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity.In his diagnostic studies of associations was able to demonstrate unconscious complexes affecting the conscious mind and capable of causing disturbances in ego functioning.His personal experience had led him to emphasize the extremely important role of a firm anchoring of the conscious viewpoint in the ego because, as he explained, the ego not only has to manage the conflicts with the external world but also to confront intrapsychic material that manifests and operates from the unconscious.It is not only our conscious ego that possesses a capacity for organization, initiative and purpose: It is in fact the development of our personality in its entirety, including our potential for consciousness, that is “directed” by a center operating in the unconscious.To distinguish it from the ego, Jung called this center the Self. P. 242 Consciousness still presses forward in obedience, as it were, to its own inertia, but the unconscious lags behind, because the strength and inner resolve needed for further expansion have been sapped. P. 550 The middle period of life is a time of enormous psychological importance. With the passing of years many of my inner fondamental questions didn’t find answers on this perspectives which was the reason I wanted to study psychology. But for people of more than average ability, people who never found it difficult to gain successes and to accomplish their share of the world's work - for them the moral compulsion to be nothing but normal signifies the bed of Procrustes - deadly and insupportable boredom, a hell of sterility and hopelessness. P. 771 Perhaps he will even believe himself perfectly adapted, since he may be able to grasp the situation intellectually, but that does not prevent his emotions from lagging far behind his intellectual insight. Fate itself seems to preserve us from this, for each of us has a tendency to become an immovable pillar of the past. Rather, it is the self as self-construed, and may change according to situation and context.The shadow is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts.