It is important to clarify that in Psychosynthesis the term “mastery” does not have here the coercive meaning of “repression”. Rather, it indicates “a wise and regulated use that produces an appropriate direction, modulation and transmutation of psychological and biological energies allowing their expression in harmless, or better still, useful and constructive ways.” R. Assagioli, 1991, (pp. 38 e 49)

Psychological energies are, in fact, indestructible: it is not possible to truly supress them, however hard we may wish or try to do so. What is worse, any attempt at suppression tends to cause inner conflict, putting our psyche under great pressure, and often generating symptoms of various kinds. The aim, therefore, is to achieve an ever-greater degree of freedom with respect to different parts of us, rather than to repress or suppress them.

According to Assagioli, the main methods for cultivating the ability to manage, intelligently and creatively, these psychological energies are:

• catharsis
• critical analysis
• disidentification and self-identification
• the development of the will.

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