Perfection vs. Wholeness, by Stacey Shelby, Ph.D.

What is this wholeness that Jungians talk about of which the Self is the ordering principle?  How is it different from perfection?  We cannot talk about wholeness without also talking about individuation, “Jung called the journey toward wholeness the ‘process of individuation’” (Storr, 1983, p. 19).  Jung wrote (CW 9i, paras. 489-524): “I use the