Subpersonality
James Vargiu is an American practitioner who deals with counseling psychology and mainly worked with Assagioli. His first book is subpersonality and deals with the phases of the thinking process. According to Vargiu, the five thinking processes are recognition, Acceptance, coordination, integration, and finally synthesis. The five phases work at different levels and can not be predicted in advance. The biggest challenge that faces psychosynthesis is thinking. In thinking a person must consider all the diversity surrounding them to make a profound decision. Rare do people pay attention to their senses and inner complexities. This contributes to resistance in some people in accepting and seeing their personality leading to conflict and anger.
Subpersonality emergy in a person in a different way and need assistance from a therapist. Subpersonalities emerge in a person through dreams, vision, or conflict with oneself. Many people are resistant to seeing their personality than others. Something inside them resists the fact that their personality is made up of different parts. However, when people become aware of this element they do accept them with principles and also continue to reject them when put into practice. This makes people continue to live together in society and think about others and themselves as if they were made to live in one piece. Also, people who are living together commonly judge others based on their current actions or behavior. When a person makes a mistake people in society are angered but when the person changes his behavior they are happy and refer to him as a different person.
People have unity and diversity in their inner life. Diversity in life leads to a different response to different circumstances yet the person is the same. The psychological reality in a person works systematically to reduce the multiplication of elements within our personality resulting in a strong sense of unity and identity. The uniqueness and differences in human beings are an aspect of unity and diversity. Each human beings possess some form of vices, virtues, and tendencies that promote understanding among one another through a particular part of oneself that is similar to another ( Vargiu, 1974 ). Similar subpersonality part among different people generates a feeling of personality that helps people to interact and associate in a friendly manner. Subpersonality varies at different rates in the individual and can only be developed through regular practice and strong disposal of psychological tools to help the person advance. People should first consider their personality before looking into any expectation that of finding the subpersonality that will fit any particular system of the person.
Subpersonality is a synthesis of behavior, habit complexes, and other forms of psychological elements. To have subpersonality there must be a center through which the synthesis process occurs. The center of the subpersonality is the inner drive that strives to be expressed or realized. This subpersonality center in a person is what attracts various personality elements to create a means of expression for a person. Each person has a large number of subpersonalities that they usually try to organize and synthesize. When these are effectively organized it results in ideal humankind who can be able to express himself appropriately. People can get away from expression where all the subpersonality are involved in what they need and later learn to cooperate and with the person. Failure of subpersonalities to integrate and work together results in more conflict and pain in the person's body leading to wastage of energy, pain, and anger.
Work Cited
James, V, 1974. Subpersonality: Psychosynthesis Workbook.
