One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that wh…

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One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p.123, Princeton University Press
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