{"id":1808,"date":"2025-11-06T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourlifeatlas.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:47:42","slug":"personality-vs-ego-identity-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourlifeatlas.com\/fr\/2025\/11\/personality-vs-ego-identity-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality vs Ego Identity &#038; Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>JG Johnston<\/h3>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ddb8be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ddb8be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">Jung\u2019s psychological types are frequently referred to as \u201cpersonality types.\u201d To call them \u201cpersonality types\u201d devalues Jung\u2019s use of the term \u201cpersonality,\u201d rendering it a type of behavior. The full balanced expression of the true personality is the aim and purpose of individuation and will engage all eight types.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jung\u2019s psychological types might better be referred to as \u201cpersona\u201d types for each presents a certain \u201cface\u201d to the world. They are ego orientations that manifest as personas\u2014the way people are perceived by others. Someone with a disposition toward extraverted feeling, for example, will have a very sociable persona. He will enjoy making conversation with others, will be highly gregarious, will enjoy meeting new people. He may be the \u201clife of the party.\u201d Someone with an introverted thinking disposition would be more withdrawn at parties\u2014often a quiet observer. She would enjoy thinking about complex questions, systems, and theories. She would often seem off in a world of her own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these, for Jung, would be types of personality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personality transcends ego consciousness. It is the greater unique person who an individual is destined to become, and that greater person will have more fluid access to extraverted feeling and introverted thinking, as well as the other ego orientations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personality\u2014as it unifies the various dispositions of psychological types, as it becomes more \u201cwhole\u201d\u2014will eventually disassemble the persona. The natural persona type will be an impediment to the destined wholeness, just as the life of a caterpillar is an impediment to the full expression of the inherent butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personality, perhaps the only term among Jung\u2019s vast lexicon of defined terms that he would not define, is an exalted experience. As we listen to some of Jung\u2019s comments about personality, we gain a better understanding of what he had in mind. Personality is none of the psychological types per se, but rather found at a midpoint between them, uniting them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis something is the desired \u201cmid-point\u201d of the personality, that ineffable something betwixt the opposites, or else that which unites them, or the result of conflict, or the product of energetic tension: the coming to birth of personality, a profoundly individual step forward, the next stage.\u201d (CW 7, Par 382)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A more fully evolved personality is the aim and purpose of individuation. Until the ego dispositions are united, disassembling an asymmetric persona, the full personality remains hidden away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transcendent function does not proceed without aim and purpose, but leads to the revelation of the essential man. It is in the first place a purely natural process, which may in some cases pursue its course without the knowledge or assistance of the individual, and can sometimes forcibly accomplish itself in the face of opposition. The meaning and purpose of the process is the realization, in all aspects, of the personality originally hidden away in the embryonic germ-plasm; the production and unfolding of the original, potential wholeness. (CW 7, par 186)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many people remain attached to their personas and ego identities\u2014identifying with their political point of view, their possessions, their socio-economic standing, educational degrees, their positions of status, their organizational roles. We might think of ego identity and persona as who we are in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the unification of authentic personality is a chief aim in life. The individual and the culture are vastly enhanced by the full flowering of personality. We might think of personality as who we are in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JG Johnston<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Auteur de La boussole indispensable de Jung<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yourlifeatlas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jungs-Compass-Cov-er-200x300-1.png\" alt=\"book image\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. 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