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I had the privilege of being taught by Professor Lucy Huskinson<\/a> who is one of the top Jungian scholars.\u00a0 Her Psychology of Religion course was one of the most challenging (as she provided masses of recommended reading and additional resources) but also one of the most engaging of courses I studied at undergraduate level.\u00a0 This was a 3000 word essay on Jung’s concept of individuation as a spiritual journey.<\/p>\n

A PDF of the essay is found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the privilege of being taught by Professor Lucy Huskinson who is one of the top Jungian scholars.\u00a0 Her Psychology of Religion course was one of the most challenging (as she provided masses of recommended reading and additional resources) but also one of the most engaging of courses I studied at undergraduate level.\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,15,33],"tags":[148,147],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-psychology-of-religion","category-theology","tag-individuation","tag-jungian-analytic-psychology"],"yoast_head":"\r\nJung on Individuation as a spiritual journey - Planet Macneil Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jung on the process of Individuation - Jung viewed personality development as lifelong, requiring spiritual and religious aspects\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/for-c-g-jung-the-process-of-individuation-is-a-spiritual-journey-or-pilgrimage\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jung on Individuation as a spiritual journey - 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