ABSTRACT
In psychosynthesis author say that the person has a personality and is a soul, because that relationship is basic to the map of the person that Assagioli first published in the 1930s and used for the rest of his life. The relationship between the field of consciousness and this first area of unconsciousness is well described by David Stafford-Clark in writing about Freud: consciousness is the spotlight which, sweeping the arena, lights up just that area on which it falls. Dark forces were acknowledged, of course, but it was generally assumed that with the progress of science and rationality, the fully reasonable person would appear indeed was already there in civilized society. Most of Freud's work, and psychoanalysis, is concerned with what Assagioli came to define as the lower unconscious. Abraham Maslow called people in touch with superconscious material transcending self-actualizers'. Self-knowledge is about being in touch with the I', within the context of the Higher Self, the soul.
