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Dr, you, we have been discussing some of the factors in the development of the personality of the individual. We and you have very kindly elaborated for us on some of your fundamental concepts, such as the archetype and the Anima and the Animus. Now another concept or idea that seems to be a very interesting one in your work is the persona. I wonder if you would mind telling us a little bit about how you construe this term, persona.What is this?

A Practical concept we need in elucidating people's relation. I noticed with my patients, particularly with people that are in public life, that they have a certain way of presenting themselves. For instance, take the doctor, he has a certain way versus he has good bedside manners, and he behaves as one expects a doctor behaves. He may even identify himself with it and believe that He is what he appears to be. He must appear in a certain form, unless people don't believe that he is a doctor. And so when he is a professor, he is also supposed to behave in a certain way so that it is plausible that he is a professor. So the persona is partially the result of the demands the society has under the other side, it is a compromise with what one likes to be or with what or as one likes to appear.