ABSTRACT
Assagioli used from the beginning a construct which he acknowledges as originating for him from William James, but which was an idea current from the earlier part of the nineteenth century that of subpersonalities. In the psychosynthesis view, each subpersonality, which consists of the same structure as the egg-shaped diagram in miniature, springs from a transpersonal quality. The image often used in psychosynthesis is that of an orchestra. The subpersonalities are all the instruments, the potential of music. The cultural environment has a profound effect on the development of subpersonalities. The psychosynthesis assumption that at the root of all subpersonalities there is a positive transpersonal quality, it is important to discover that quality and the defences that have been built up around it. The concept of subpersonalities makes it more possible for one to accept the inconsistency within oneself with tolerance and may be that is the lesson that could be applied again to the variety in the external world.
