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ARAS Connections Issue 2, 2012
held” |8|, “the capacity to accept paradox” (to contain opposites) |9|, “both room
and strength” |10|, and both “originality and the acceptance of tradition as the
basis for invention” |11|.
A description of Winnicott's interior space and Jung's individuation
with examples
Winnicott described interior space in his book Playing and Reality |11|
|47|. Jung and many others have described individuation |48| |49| |50| |51| |52|.
I describe personality evolution here in terms of increased consciousness but it
may take other forms.
In individuation opposites (good and evil, strong and weak, wise and
foolish) are more balanced in consciousness: I am less liable to identify with one
extreme and project the other extreme onto someone else. This is a quality of
leadership. A leader should consider the opposing sides of an issue and make a
conscious, balanced choice; a leader should not project evil, for example, as
belonging exclusively to the other |9|.
My patient, “Ted”, was a driver/shareholder at United Parcel Service. His
parents had not been able to assert themselves consciously. As a child he did not
play competitive sports. As an adult his instinctive potential for assertion was
undifferentiated and expressed itself unconsciously in primitive forms. He was
passive-aggressive or he flew into a rage. He read thrillers compulsively for their
vicarious aggression. His conscious self was the weaker for this. He lacked
confidence and could not voice his opinions or wishes appropriately.
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