Archive for March 4th, 2010

In Jungian psychology, Persona is the final product of a number of adjusting changes in one’s personality in order to fit into the outside world: family, school, and job.

The result is not always the best. For example, a person who has suffered a great deal of repression at home has a few choices:
- he can end up identifying himself with the repressing model;
- he can turn into a rebel, and possibly waste much of his youth doing strange things and feeling lost
- he can try to avoid both extremes without having a clear vision of the problem and look like a goody not well adaptive person with little success at school, who takes time to find his career and maintains a childlike attitude toward the world.

A more conscious person, who is lucky enough to have enlightened parents, can overcome the massive society interference and work his way out to become the person he is meant to be.

Summing up, the Persona is the mask used to enter the theater of this world. It’s most powerful justification lays on the need to belong to a group. But the price we pay is to have small or large pieces of ourselves amputated.