{"id":15391,"date":"2020-12-16T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=15391"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:27:32","slug":"a-conversation-about-subpersonalities-with-assagioli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/a-conversation-about-subpersonalities-with-assagioli\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation about Subpersonalities"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Assagioli casts new light on his understanding of subpersonalities in this dialogue with a student in which he asserts that some subpersonalities stem from our past lives.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"Subpersonality\"<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Translated from Italian by Gordon Symon<\/span><\/span><\/strong> , <\/span><\/span>Assagioli Archive Florence (original title: <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Subpersonalita-intuitive-di- BC)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

RA :(Referring to the question asked by BC about subpersonalities which include feelings of inferiority), I agree that they are mainly due to the distorted intuition of the relative perfection of the higher realms, and not to the oedipal situation. Oedipus is only something additional, but for the most part, it is due to that intuition of perfection. And the reaction of inferiority for not having it is wrong, and so is the sense of guilt, self-punishment, etc. Then she projects it on the family, on the siblings, on her parents – but this is a secondary projection at the psychological level; the real root is that the vision of perfection, of glory creates a reaction in the personality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(BC: In general, do non-intuitives often have problems of this kind?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

RA: I would almost always say so. Non-intuitives more easily accept themselves as they are. And they are often satisfied with themselves. \u201cI’m a smart person.\u201d They don’t see the upper levels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(BC .: If intuition can be learned, does that mean that intuitives learned it in a previous life?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

RA: I wouldn’t use the term “learned”. Awakened. Remember that it is latent in everyone, and that it is a question of awakening it from potentiality to actuality. It cannot be “learned”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n