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These words are not my own and I take no credit for them. I share them here as a resource for anyone seeking personal growth or as source material for their own creative expansion of the collective.
It is an extremely painful and dangerous way to live – split between a publicly, acceptable persona, and a part of yourself that you perceive as the essential, the creative and powerful self, yet also as possibly unacceptable, perhaps even monstrous.
The personality is rooted in lack, estrangement or disintegration of selfhood; the personal narrative organized around a lost moment of origin, which, th endlessly reconstructed, was not recovered.
Whoever looks into the mirror of the water will see first of all his own face. Whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. The mirror does not flutter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor. But the mirror lies behind the mask and shows the true face.
Inordinate identification with the persona signals susceptibility to shadow formation, suggesting a significant part of the personality lies below the surface.
When we analyze the persona we strip off the mask, and discover that what seems to be individual is at the bottom collective; in other words, that the persona was only a mask of the collective psyche... In a certain sense all this is real, yet in relation to the essential individuality of the person concerned it is only a secondary reality, a compromise formation.
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