The aim of the seminar is to elaborate on the notion of individuation in our engagement with daily life and in the course of our lives. The notion of ‘our’ life to be individuated presents us with a problem, as to become who we truly are, it does not necessarily mean that we become what we think or want to. Even though the latter might be an expression of the truth, it only offers a temporal approximation at different times in our life. When we try to decide and choose our way forwards the road becomes elusive. With our conception or images of individuation always receding or changing, we are filled with doubts and more un-answered questions. This, being in doubt and lost for answers, opens us up to an exchange with this experience in our life that it can bring its fulfilment. The end, the telos, of the endless searching is the realisation of the endlessness of it in this case. We are then left with finding our way as we go, finding a way that appears clear only when we look back on it. Jung, defined the personality as‘having put its terrors… (of waking up to consciousness)…behind,’ and after the person having ‘voluntarily sacrificed himself to his vocation.’ In the seminar we will examine individuation from different perspectives, which might appear elusive or negating of what we might know of it.
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