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Process Of Individuation Sparknotes

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The primary way Sinclair and I share the Process of Individuation is through the recognition that our parents are not perfect. In the story Demian, Hesse represents the process one goes through when they realize there parents are not perfect human beings through using Emil Sinclair’s experience with his parents. Sinclair’s experience with realizing that parents are not perfect is expressed when sinclair states, “This moment was the most significant and lasting of the whole experience…it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself” (14 Hesse). Often times when one is young they have the idea that their parents are flawless human beings and they look to them
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