Individuation
Individuation is a central aim of Jungian dream analysis.
Carl Jung wrote about Individuation in his usual depth and detail. Here is my intuitive-feeling take — painted from lived experience:
Individuation is like the unconscious sculpting you out of clay — somehow with your participation and inspiration — into a new living form. Refreshed and now related to that unconscious world of which you are forever an integral part.
By returning to base clay, one’s childhood history and its contaminants are left out, bit by bit. A creative process takes place where fear of who one really is becomes replaced by love and acceptance from one's greater Self. Pain and injury are removed, creative individual expression is refined, and one's place in the cosmos as a beloved being issues forth.
The fear is of being judged — even annihilated — for one's faults and unworthiness. The acceptance comes from a creator that sees only your true value and intrinsic worth, and wants only for you to see and feel this too. Once this is seen and accepted, one becomes the multidimensional being that we all truly are. We reflect the greater Self we are bound to, and we bring conscious awareness to that higher Self.
We are fulfilled — and fulfill.
Edward Burne-Jones, "The Soul Attains," from Pygmalion and the Image, 1878. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.