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is necessarily concerned with love in so far as love allows one to overcome the sense of isolation and separateness while at the same time permitting one to be oneself, to retain one's integrity.

Love is an active power in man... a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others... love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. Erich Fromm

is the deepest need of the human being; that is, the need to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. Erich Fromm

is the formation of an individual that is always unfinished, that stands out singularly from its environment, and is in relation to other individuals psychically, collectively, and technically.

In his philosophy of technologies, or 'technical objects' as he puts it, Stiegler draws upon Simondon's work to construct individuation as the formation of an individual that is 'toujours inachev´e' (Stiegler, 2011a), always unfinished. The premise to Stiegler's individuation is a twofold characterisation of the individual. Firstly, for Stiegler, the individual stands out as a 'unit´e totale' (total unity) in his environment and as a 'unit singuli´ere' (single unity) in relation to other individuals (Stiegler,2011b). Secondly, in Stiegler's view, to be an individual means to be in aprocess of becoming rather than in a defined condition, as he explains, '[u]nindividu est un verbe infinitif plut'ot qu'un substantif d´efini, un devenir plutotqu'un ´etat'2 (Stiegler, 2011b). Stiegler proceeds to define individuation as a three-stranded process, which is always at the same time psychic, collective andtechnical.' (NET)

is the idea that individual entities are ontologically original.

is the idea that when knowledge is imposed upon a blind striving energy, it results in an objectified existence (of, for example subjects and objects), yes, but one that necessarily turns against itself like bulldog-ant of australia, which when cut in half, struggles in a battle to the death between its head and tail.

Schopenhauer concludes in The World as Will and Representation that we create the violent state of nature, for he maintains that the individuation that we impose upon things, is imposed upon a blind striving energy that, once it becomes individuated and objectified, turns against itself, consumes itself, and does violence to itself. His paradigm image is of the bulldog-ant of Australia, which when cut in half, struggles in a battle to the death between its head and tail. Our very quest for scientific and practical knowledge creates a world that feasts upon itself.

is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated from other human beings.

In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated [from other human beings]... in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.'

is the process in which the mature, whole, integrated individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious.

the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole' (wikipedia)

is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. Carl Jung

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