What you are doing is not individuation per se but is one component of it. By identifying immature psychic traits in yourself and how you react to others you ar

What you are doing is not individuation per se but is one component of it. By identifying immature psychic traits in yourself and how you react to others you are withdrawing your own projections. That is one way of trying to know your own shadow self. Knowing and integrating shadow is first step to individuation. Man and his symbols is good introduction to Carl Jung's theories if you would like to know more.