According to Jungian psychoanalysis, the persona or 'conforming archetype' is one of the universal archetypal images that inherit all human beings. According to Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, the persona is part of the inherent human nature, human being as species. The conversation language speaks of someone's "image" or "image", the impression someone makes on the outside world or he's trying to "project".
The five most important archetypes of Jung are the persona, the anima, the animus, the shadow and the self. These are of great importance in the formation of our personality and exercise unconsciously influence our behavior.
The persona - a Greek word that originally meant "mask" - is, according to this theory, an archetype that enables the person to portray a character, a person without necessarily having to be his own character. It's the façade he or she shows to the outside world, often to make a good impression and to relax socially. In this regard, the persona forms the basis of human social life, and helps him to survive better. After all, the impression he brings to others, partners and others can be a matter of acceptance within the group or by that other person.
The persona thus provides the person with material and other benefits, but may also have an adverse effect. For example, some people lead a double life, with, on the one hand, the requirements of the persona who want to conform to society, and, on the other hand, their own psychological needs. Even when a person becomes too much involved in the role he plays and thus identifies himself too much with that role, this can be detrimental to his personal development. Such a man alienates from his own nature. Such identification of me with the persona calls Jung "inflation". Psychotherapy can then reveal that these people have "cheated" themselves for years, suppressing their own feelings and interests. During a treatment, the therapist aims to give other aspects of character the opportunity to manifest.
What in the Jungian vision can also have adverse effects is when parents try to "project" their persona on their children. There is also a "group person" that manifests itself in the behavior of an individual when he wants to conform to the rules of the group. If this fails, alienate the person of society and feel lonely.
It is possible that a person is wearing more than one mask; all those masks together form the persona. Also see
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