ABSTRACT

C.G.JUNG'S VIE\VS ON THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS

We have mentioned Jung's 'creative illness', which may also be considered to have been a mid-life crisis, a psychic constellation inherent to his individuation process. For Jung, it was characterized by a struggle with the power of contents activated in his unconscious. He said himself that this experience provoked a reorientation in the deepest structures of his personality:

But then, I hit upon this stream of lava, and the heat of its fires reshaped my life . That was the primal stuff which compelled me to work upon it, and my works are a more or less successful endeavour to incorporate this incandescent matter into the contemporary picture of the world.