Contemporary Voices on Individuation

This new collection of essays by a range of Jungian analysts and scholars seeks to address the concept of individuation in contemporary times, and reflects on its meaning within the 21st century.

Giorgio Tricarico is a psychologist, psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and supervisor, member of the IAAP. He has worked with adult patients since 1998. He is an international lecturer on relevant issues in Analytical Psychology, a writer of articles and books (published by Routledge: The Labyrinth of Possibility, and Lost Goddesses: A Kaleidoscope on Porn), and is an independent researcher on porn and ethical non-monogamy.

1. Introduction 2. A Conversation with Sonu Shamdasani 3. Individuation: the Three Main Decisions in Life Require Taking Risk 4. "I did the best I could at the time". An Invitation to Individuate? 5. Individuation: Clinical Process or Romantic Ideal? 6. Synchronicity and Individuation: Meaningful Coincidences as Turning Points in Human Development 7. Individuation beyond the Individual: From Atrial Fibrillation to the Biopolitics of Empathy 8. How to Be in the Presence of Bounty 9. Lesbian Identity as a Path to Individuation 10. At the Intersection of Identity Politics and Individuation 11. Individuation and Polyamory 12. Temporality, Meaning, Wholeness: Revisiting C.G. Jung's Notion of Individuation