2- Model of self-fulfillment  

This model, typical of the years immediately following Vatican II, must be understood contextualizing it exactly in the historical period in which it arose, in a more or less informal way.  On the one hand, in fact, it is the inevitable consequence of the  perfection model or a foreseeable reaction to it; on the other hand, it signals an even rather accentuated break from it. 

In what does it consist? First of all, in placing a personal identity in ones gifts and qualities (on the physical, psychic and moral levels), presuming to be one’s own maker and craftsman of one’s own fortune (the “self-made” type), and in pursuing the fulfillment of one’s talents and abilities as primary purpose of life, and the condition and guarantee of self-respect.