Individuation Individuation was Jung's term for the pattern of human growth.
Dreams are part of the web of psychological factors which create an individual's life pattern.
Dreams, watched over a period, reveal these patterns, in their own repeated patterns. Jung saw development as unique to each individual. He uses the example of the tree. Jung believed that if one person started on the course of individuation then it would affect and benefit other people around them, and that this in turn would have its effect on external events. MJ Further reading Anthony Stevens, On Jung .