ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses only her own reflections and interpretation of the meaning of the 'self. Carl Gustav Jung’s observation of Anna and her concern and reflections about death and childbirth must have shown him how much the process and the struggle of individuation is a feature of the child’s world also. Jung himself had suggested that the development of consciousness is central to his concept of individuation. The little self is based on the consciousness of the continuity, stability, and identity of the individual. The little self has more direct and concrete modes of expression, such as actions, body images, self images, self representations, orientation in space and time. There is the big self—that is, the self as postulated by Jung; it refers to our psychosomatic wholeness and finds expression in the images, drives, and symbols of unity and totality.
