I have often referenced the term “persona”. A persona is what you meet. A person is someone you get to know in time. Sometimes sooner than faster. There are also moments in life, where personae are bypassed and due to the uniqueness/intensity/timing of a specific situation, a persona has no time to kick in and the true self shines through with the intensity required from the situation at hand. In his psychological theory – which is not necessarily linked to a particular theory of social structure – the persona appears as a consciously created personality or identity, fashioned out of part of the collective psyche through socialization, acculturation and experience. Jung applied the term persona, explicitly because, in Latin, it … Continue reading What is a persona?