Definition
The integrated human is Greene's ideal of psychological wholeness: a person who has examined the full range of their nature — including the aggressive, selfish, envious, and irrational sides — and brought them into conscious ownership instead of disowning them.
Integration does not mean acting on every impulse. It means knowing those impulses exist, understanding what triggers them, and channelling their energy productively. The integrated person is neither a denier of their darker traits nor a slave to them.
Why it matters
How it works
The path to integration begins with honest self-observation. A person tracks their reactions, notices the traits they are quick to condemn in others, and treats those as clues to disowned parts of themselves. They then accept these parts as human rather than shameful.
Accepted, the darker energies become usable: aggression becomes assertiveness and ambition, envy becomes a signal of genuine desire. The result is a fuller, more original personality — one that draws on the whole self rather than a censored fragment of it.