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Traditional theories about adult development suggested this period is a time of transition, most surely, but a transition in which people come to know themselves more clearly and to integrate aspects of their personality that they may have previously ignored or somehow sublimated (Jung, 1971). Jung developed a construct of identity that included the persona, the face that people show to the world, and the shadow, the aspects of self that are kept hidden from others and often from the individual herself. During midlife, according to Jung, the individuation process takes place. This is the conscious realization and integration of all the various qualities and potentials present in an individual. Jung proposed that this is accomplished through the recognition of one’s less attractive qualities (the shadow self), the ones kept hidden from the outer world as well as oneself, and through an effort toward acceptance and integration of these attributes into an amicable union with one’s more pleasing qualities, as represented by the persona.