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individuation
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individuation /in·di·vid·u·a·tion/ (in″dĭ-vid″u-a´shun)
1. the process of developing individual characteristics.
2. differential regional activity in the embryo occurring in response to organizer influence.

in·di·vid·u·a·tion (nd-vj-shn)
n.
1. The act or process of becoming distinct or individual, especially the process by which social individuals become differentiated one from the other.
2. In Jungian psychology, gradual integration and unification of the self through the resolution of successive layers of psychological conflict.
3. The formation of distinct organs or structures through the interaction of adjacent tissues in an embryo.

individuation
1. the process of developing individual characteristics.
2. differential regional activity in the embryo occurring in response to organizer influence.

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The volume's contributors justify this context on the grounds of the common thematic threads that unite these narratives beyond the differences in class, gender, and race that individuate the location of distinct immigrant groups.
As the first-person narratives alternate among their three perspectives, cracks in the relationship become visible, and as each one begins to individuate, they realize that their escape plan is more restrictive than liberating.
Filmed as flatly as it is scripted, ``Winter Solstice'' has little to say about family dynamics because it just doesn't do enough to individuate this potentially interesting household of grieving, unsatisfied men.
 
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