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Tikkun has to do with correction, restoration, and renewal. It is the core concept, the raison d'etre of Kabbalah and coincides with the impetus for reparation, perhaps the most significant psychoanalytic formulation of Melanie Klein and her colleagues.
Reparation is the will, means, and action of repairing an inner world shattered under the pressure of destructive impulses and an outer world of damaged relationships, peoples, and things. Reparation, like Tikkun, is both a goal and the movement toward this goal. According to Kleinian psychology, reparation is never complete; rather, it is an active process of striving toward completeness, whether of the head or heart or entire being. It is intimately related to its Kabbalistic counterpart, which also is a constant ongoing process, but with a larger purpose, to unify the universe.
Tikkun has to do with healing—physical, emotional, and spiritual. For “man” this has to do with healing the rifts within himself and between himself and others, in order to gain and regain wholeness (Shalame) and peace of mind (Shalom).
Essentially, the Kabbalah teaches that when a person restores his self-balance, that is, restores the proper weight of his thoughts, feelings, and actions on a personal scale, he will simultaneously perform a tikhun ha-olam, a transformation of the cosmos. Therefore, what happens internally will happen externally,