Maale, Rachel Marie S.

Group Process, Techniques and Strategies

III-10 BVE Professor: Ma’am Agarao

Summary Report
“Psychosynthesis: Model of a Person”

Robert Assagioli proposed diagrams which basically represent the human person are
very essential part of the Psychosynthesis. The Applied Psychosynthesis is commonly used in the
process of Psychotherapy which helps the individual to improve his mental health and well-
being. One of these diagrams is the Egg Diagram. The Egg Diagram is the mere representation
of the individual itself and described by Assagioli as simple yet gives an almost “anatomical”
structure of the human person’s “inner constitution”. The Egg Diagram draws like this:

The Egg Diagram basically comprises of (7) seven parts which include: (1) the Lower
Unconscious,(2) the Middle Unconscious, (3) the Higher Unconscious, (4) the Field of
Consciousness,(5) the Conscious Self or “I”, (6) the Higher Self and (7) the Collective
Unconscious. The Lower Conscious refers to the part or “realm” of the person which consists of
the different experiences of fear, shame, pain, despair and even rage. To describe the lower
unconscious better, it is part of the human person which consists of the different painful and bad
experiences of man which are “broken away from consciousness”. The Middle Conscious is the
one, though unconscious supports our conscious life. In this, lies the ability to form patterns of
“skills, behaviors, feelings and attitudes” that can function even we’re unaware of it which
greatly influences our consciousness. The Higher Unconscious is termed by Assagioli as “the
sphere of aesthetic experience, creative inspiration, and higher states of consciousness”. This
refers to the “higher potentials we have which seek to express themselves but which often repel
or repress”. The Field of Consciousness of course speaks of itself as the part of the human
person which have the things which we are “directly aware” like that of our ‘stream of thoughts’,
‘images’, ‘sensations and feelings’, ‘desires’ and ‘impulses’. The Conscious self or “I” is
considered as the person himself. “I” is the direct “reflection” or “projection” of self and “the
essential being of a person”, distinct, but not separate from all other components of experiences.
The “I” consists of (2) two functions, the consciousness (awareness) and will (personal will). The
Higher Self (in the first proposed diagram) is described to be the “existing solely in the direction
of the higher unconscious, that level of unconscious seen in the “peak experiences” and
characterized by such qualities as, ecstasy, union, compassion, wholeness, joy, and beauty”.
Although the self is said to experience the painful experiences of the lower unconscious and the
everyday “awareness” of the middle unconscious, it is expected to be distant from the “flatlands”
of life and aim for reach “upward to the heights”. In the present diagram, the higher self is said to
be permeating all the aspects of a person. It is said that the self is present among all aspects. And
lastly is the Collective Unconscious which is similar of that of Jung’s perception, in which it is
the things specifically knowledge shared by people through period of time. It is compared to that
of the membrane around the cell.

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