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individuation

NOUN
  1. discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
  2. the quality of being individual
    so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality

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  • But this is not the only similarity between the individuation process symbolically pictured both in Dylan's opus and in the Bible, where the same deepest mythologem structured the whole book, especially the Book of Isaiah - culminating in the Servant Songs formed in 6th century B.C. - and was further extended in the Book of Revelation in the end of 1st century A.D. Expecting Rain
  • She called this process separation-individuation, in which the term separation refers to the infant’s gradual disengagement from a fused state with the primary love object, and the term individuation signifies the development of the child’s unique characteristics Goldstein, 1995: 117-127. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
  • Most significant of all for the social problem of sex, is the overwhelming tendency to individuation which is making both men and women frankly question whether marriage and parenthood are worth while when they involve so much personal sacrifice. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
  • Although individuation is viewed as the optimal path to identity development in some cultures, this is ethnocentric and biased when viewed in the context of other cultures across the world.
  • Thus one may be inclined to abandon the word antagonism, and to say merely that there is a necessary inverse ratio between "individuation" and "genesis," to use the original Spencerian terms. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
  • While men need others, their self-development focuses more on individuation and autonomy. The Truth About Grief
  • Increased behavioral autonomy facilitates secondary processes such as role exploration, identity formation, and individuation.
  • The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others.
  • Herbert Spencer's "line of individuation," must begin with the lancelet and its disputed head, and end in the Catarrhine or Old World monkey. Life: Its True Genesis
  • Although the volume depicts a spiritual drought in the postlapsarian world that hinders its individuation, glimmers of the active imagination provide a vehicle for redemption.
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