Seven Stations of Individuation

Positions

1. 1

   Persona

   Question: What mask am I wearing?

   Your social face, the adapted self. What role has become confused with your identity?

2. 2

   Shadow

   Question: What am I rejecting in myself?

   The personal shadow - qualities denied, repressed, or projected. Usually same-sex.

3. 3

   Anima/Animus

   Question: Who is my inner other?

   The contrasexual opposite within. Bridge to the collective unconscious.

4. 4

   Self - First Glimpse

   Question: What is the organizing center?

   First encounter with the Self - the center and circumference. The God-image within.

5. 5

   Inflation/Deflation

   Question: How am I identified with/separated from the Self?

   The danger point - identifying with the Self (inflation) or feeling worthless (deflation).

6. 6

   Integration

   Question: What synthesis is occurring?

   The work of integrating conscious and unconscious. Making the opposites conscious.

7. 7

   Wholeness

   Question: What quality of wholeness is emerging?

   Not completion, but the quality of being whole while incomplete. The Self as process, not achievement.