Wholeness

In terms of the psychology of Jung, wholeness is the expression in the fullest possible way of all aspects of the personality in itself, in relation to other people and in relation to the environment. It can be equated with health. Fundamental wholeness is a state into which one is born, but this breaks down to re-form into something more differentiated. Subsequent achievement of conscious wholeness may be seen as the purpose of life. It may be helped or hindered by interaction with other people or one's environment, but cannot be actively followed as such. Being greedy for wholeness may actually be an escape from psychological conflict. Nevertheless, it can often be seen that wholeness is the hidden or secret end of life's experience. Again, Jung saw wholeness as linked to the coming together and synthesizing of two opposites, for example male and female elements (animus and anima) and good and evil elements (accepting the shadow).