ABSTRACT
CG Jung's individuation process may be consequently evaluated as a contribution to the theory and clinical practice of superego psychology. The acquisition of a creative personality, involving "regression in the service of the ego" and "creative surrender" to the unconscious, are the phenomena known to psychoanalysis that most closely approximate his individuation process. Jung's understanding of revelation allowed him to assert, with qualifications, that a person might achieve individuation in a culture or era where no one had achieved consciousness. But consistent with his understanding of revelation were his discussions of two further religious phenomena: vocation and conscience. Working instead with Freud's superego concept, Jung concludes that the ego's religious submission to the superego may proceed with superegos of very different sorts. The ego's depersonification of the archetypes leads, on the one hand, to the discovery of the self and the ego's submission to it.
