How to Use individuation in a Sentence

individuation

noun
  • This process of individuation is all the more impressive for its refusal to present its team as a classic band of archetypes.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2016
  • Of course, their adventures were as much about teamwork as individuation.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The book detailed the group’s work, which came to be known as separation-individuation theory.
    — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Again, competitive individuation at least offers a chance this could happen.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • Brodie works with big themes — individuation, mental illness, legacy, self-destruction and redemption — but her touch is lighter than an onshore breeze.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • If the old anxiety was about process, the new anxieties are about individuation—which offers a clue to some of the thinking behind hesitancy to take vaccines.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But given Serge’s subject matter and circumstances, this push and pull between individuation and abstraction has a specific charge.
    — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Its discussions of Jungian analysis, dream interpretation, and the individuation process may strike many readers as strange.
    — Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Zimbardo continued to study the effects of individuation and social influence as well as therapeutic techniques for survivors of trauma.
    — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014
  • The literature on adolescence marks middle school as a turning point, a time when kids begin to pull away from their parents, discard childish pursuits, and pursue, full thrust, the exhausting project of individuation.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • But ethical conflict and discussions of faith and sacrifice can only sustain a movie so far, particularly when the large ensemble doesn’t allow much scope for character individuation.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • His research focused on individuation the negative forms of social influence (such as conformity, obedience and the bystander effect) and the use of time perspective as therapy after trauma.
    — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014
  • This engagement with primordial matter perfectly aligns with themes of female identity, gender individuation and personal agency.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2022
  • This age coincides with the important developmental stage in which children begin a process of separation and individuation and assert themselves as distinct individuals.
    — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 30 May 2022
  • Reading Carl Jung’s theory of individuation, the development of self-realization, led her to see her seven chickens as one continuous being, always in communication with wild birds.
    — Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The second episode of The Kardashians further establishes the show’s style—crisp camerawork, tight narratives, and a confident and unhurried pace—while also highlighting the family’s apparent individuation from one another.
    — Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022

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