DEVELOPMENT AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITY IN THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS

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HUMAN INDIVIDUATION: SELECTED TOPICS

by MATJAŽ L. REGOVEC, PhD, Phd

Sat, 8 May 2027

The two fundamental forms of identity, the collective and the individual, have some specific dynamics and development. Whereas the child’s collective identity, i.e., their identity with the symbolic forms of the human collective (the primary family, forms of education, peer groups, clubs, one’s job in early adulthood, etc.) develops slowly in due time, one’s individual identity is historically rooted in the historicity of one’s childhood and later emotional experience, yet is on the other hand to be uncovered, upgraded and made visible in the human collective during one’s individuation in the narrower sense, in the second half of life. We are going to look closely into both forms of human identity that underpin one’s own unique and inimitable individuation process on the whole. In the exploration of our own identity, we can draw on some important guidelines offered by one’s specific archetypes of individuation, as revealed by one’s personal cosmogram.