Differences in child-rearing practices (1991)
SOCIALIZATION AND INDIVIDUATION

Question: "Why is the relationship between individuation and socialization significant for anyone who works with children?"

An understanding of tile relationship between individuation and socialization is important for anyone working with children because the concept is integral to the nature of being. Human existence is polarized by between Self and Other. Integration of these polarities by the human organism, coming to a synthesis, is the process of maturation essential to the formation of interpersonal relationships.

"The elements are Nuit -- Space -- that is the total of possibilities of every kind -- and Hadid, and point which has the experience of those possibilities. (This idea is for literary convenience symbolized by the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, a woman building over like the Arch of the Night Sky. Hadid is symbolized as a Winged Globe at the heart of Nuit)." (Crowley, 1938).

If we accept the syllogism Hadid:Self::Nuit:Other, then understanding the self in relations to others in the world becomes an act of divine communion. This relates to Nichols (1980) analysis of the Tarot trump card, the Magician, in which an illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses entitled "The Separation of the Elements" in which it becomes apparent that the wholeness of the Great Round is in not destroyed by Divine disunification of Unity.

Socialization is the internalization of Nuit. Individuation is fully becoming Hadid. Both are Critical in the process of becoming human.

REFERENCES

Crowley, A. (1938). The Book of the Law, London: Ordo Ternplum Orientis.

Nichols, S. (1980). Jung & Tarot: An archetypal journey, York Beach, ME: S. Weiser, Inc.


Thomas S. Rue, MA, NCC
December 10, 1991

Psychological and Quantitative Foundations 7P:109
The University of Iowa - College of Education
Socialization of the School Age Child - Assignment #1
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