Individuation

Individuation describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things, this includes how an individual person is held to be distinct from other elements in the world and how a person is distinct from other persons.

In Jungian psychology, individuation is the process where the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious, other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends group attachment and narcissistic self-absorption.

Todays the term individuation denotes new online technologies that permit mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, or a website so that its contents match each individual user's unique interests. This differs from the traditional mass-media practice of producing the same contents for all readers, viewers, listeners, or online users.