Individuation is the empirical process by which personality orders itself around the Self, the inner center that embraces conscious and unconscious. It proceeds through images, affects, and decisions that gather a scattered life into pattern. Energy (libido) concentrates at real conflicts and releases through symbol, which gives a new attitude. The work advances in sequences—recognition, image, ethical deed—so that insight takes form. A person emerges who carries their singular pattern with greater fidelity and steadiness.
