individuation
pronunciation
How to pronounce individuation in British English:
UK [ɪndɪˌvɪdjʊ'eɪʃən]
How to pronounce individuation in American English:
US [ɪndəˌvɪdʒʊ'eɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
- the quality of being individual
Word Origin
- individuation (n.)
- 1620s, from Medieval Latin individuationem, noun of action from individuare, from individuus (see individual). Psychological sense is from 1909.
Example
- 1. Human development is a lifelong process of striving toward completeness , which jung termed individuation .
- 2. Very few people who take the mbti assessment and learn about their type move through the doorway to jungian individuation .
- 3. Under favorable circumstances ( that is , when family and culture encourage individuation ) these requirements can be replaced by more flexible and moderate tendencies ; but they never entirely disappear .
- 4. The five levels of understanding was created by katharine myers to help people who are interested find a pathway through the door of the mbti and psychological type to the deeper levels of jungian psychology and individuation .
- 5. Although the five levels of understanding constitutes a logical progression for understanding jung 's complete theory ; individuation is not a linear process .