the development of the personality
wholeness of the personality is achieved when the main pairs of opposite are relatively differentiated, that is, when both parts of the total psyche, consciousness and the unconscious, are linked together in a living relation
but the dynamic gradient, the flow of psychic life, is not endangered, for the unconscious can never be made wholly conscious and always has the greater store of energy
the wholeness is always relative and "give us sometime to work on as we live" 'Personality' as the complete realization of our whole being, is an unattainable ideal
but unattainability is no argument against the ideal, for ideals are only signposts, never the goal
the development of the personality is at once a blessing and a curse
we must pay dearly for it and the price is isolation and loneliness
its first fruit is the conscious and unavoidable segregation of the single individual from the undifferentiated and unconscious herd
but to stand alone is not enough, above all on must be faithful to one's own law: Only the man who can consciously assent to the power of the inner voice become a personality
And only a personality can find a proper place in the collectivity; only personalitities have the power to create a community, that is, to become integral parts of a human group and not merely a number in the mass
For the mass is only a sum of individuals and can never, like a community, become a living organism that receives and bestows life
thus self-realization, both in the individual and in the extrapersonal, collective sense, becomes a moral decision, and it is this moral decision which lends force to the process of self-fulfilment that jung calls individuation
self-scrutiny and self-fulfilment are therefore-----or rather they should be!------- the absolute prerequisite for the assumption of any higher obligation, even of the obligation to lend the best possible form and the greatest possible scope to the fulfilment of one's own individual life, as nature always does, though without the responsibility which is the divine burden of man
individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being, and, in so far as "individuality" embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self
But individuation is far from meaning individualism in the marrow, egocentric sense, for all that individuation does is to make a man the individual that he really is
By individuation he does not become 'selfish'; he fulfils his individual nature, which is something very different and must not be confused with egoism or individualism
He becomes not only an individual but also a member of a collectivity, and the wholeness he has achieved is in contact, through consciousness and the unconscious, with the whole world
the accent is not on his supposed individuality as opposed to his collective obligations but, as stated above,on the fulfilment of his own nature as it is related to the whole
for 'an actual conflict with the collective norm takes place only when an individual way is raised to a norm, which is the real aim of extreme individualism'