ABSTRACT
Throughout this book we have been concerned with the evolution of psychobiological processes. We have put the view that the human mind is made up of a variety of competencies laid down at different points over millions of years. The aim has been to convey the notion that humans have a set of evolved competencies (archetypal potentials) which furnish the substance of our meaning making. In this chapter we look in more detail at the case for separate competencies (mentalities), yet also explore the degree to which integration of these separate mentalities can and does take place. Integration, we shall argue, is a property of the psychic system. This concern is examined in more detail in the second half of this chapter, on the self. First, we return to the importance of there being separate competencies within the human mind.
