Editing Individuation (section)

===In Jungian psychology===
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In analytical psychology, individuation is the process by which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated [[Unconscious mind|unconscious]] – seen as a developmental [[Psyche (psychology)|psychic process]] during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the [[Experience (disambiguation)|experience]]s of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<ref>{{Citation|date=2015-06-26|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315745541-12|work=Living Archetypes|pages=70–85|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9781315745541-12 |access-date=2022-01-21|title=The Stages of Life, Chapter 3 of Jung: A Very Short Introduction (1994/2001) |isbn=9781315745541 }}</ref> Other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends group attachment and narcissistic self-absorption.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of the Second Sex|last=Hengehold|first=Laura|date=2017|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=9781474418874|location=Edinburgh|pages=41}}</ref>