Psychosynthesis uses many forms and techniques in the process to wholeness, the use of maps to help understand the components of the self. Assagioli found that the "EGG" Diagram was a way of unmasking the mystery of the self.

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 7. The Collective Unconscious

Assagioli's original "egg" diagram offers a view of the human psyche in its many aspects. The layers of the unconscious include: the lower unconscious, the arena of repressed and traumatic memories, fundamental drives and impulses, and elementary psychological functions; the middle unconscious which is formed of psychological elements similar to those of our waking consciousness and easily accessible to it.; the higher unconscious carrying the elements of transpersonal experience; and the collective unconscious, defined primarily by Jung as the unconscious that carries archetypal experiences.

The varying layers of unconsciousness are noted with dotted lines indicating the permeability and non-rigidity of these states, and likewise the fields of consciousness, that awareness that an individual may have in any moment is also not a fixed point.

The Self, in this map, is viewed as both the "I", a centre of awareness and will anchored within the personality and the Higher Self, the centre of awareness and will anchored in the transpersonal dimension and accessing both personal and universal experience.

In versions of the "egg" diagram that have followed Assagioli's original model, the Higher Self star has been removed, or it has been drawn surrounding the egg, or with an equivalent "star" located opposite the Higher Self in the lower unconscious sphere. Each of these versions points to the awareness that the Self exists in all areas of the psyche, that as the ground of being and the source, it is not only accessible in "higher" experiences but also in everyday life (middle unconscious) and in the depths of the experience of darkness (the lower unconscious) .