The persona is our mask--the place in our personality where public and private meet, where who we are collides with who we're told we should be. In the first book devoted entirely to the key Jungian concept of persona, Hopcke uses case histories from his practice as a Jungian therapist to explore this concept.
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In Jungian psychology, the persona is each individual's presentation to the world?our dress, facial expressions, and patterns of speech and action?that reveals or disguises the true self. According to Jungian psychotherapist Hopcke (A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Shambhala, 1992), most Jungian therapists despise the persona as a false and limiting "mask" and therefore neglect problems that their patients encounter in daily interaction with others in favor of more "soulful" approaches. Here he covers such issues as treatment of the inappropriate or inadequate persona, persona conflicts of minorities, and religious and artistic persona manipulations. Although this book is a much-needed counterweight to the introspective tendencies of most Jungians, it is limited by the author's failure to read outside his own narrow field. Books like Erving Goffman's classic Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) covers much the same material. For Jungian therapy or depth psychology collections.?Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, Wash.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Surprisingly enough, not one of the plethora of books on C. G. Jung's thought has been on his concept of the persona, the mask each of us wears in our social interactions. Hopcke fills that gap amply. Persona is related etymologically to both person and personality, and Hopcke fully considers the ways that the social mask expresses and inhibits such dimensions of the fuller self. Most interesting is his examination of how minority persons are encouraged to assume masks unthreatening to the biased world around them; such persons win psychological health, which often entails removing false faces, with great pain when their new, individuated selves provoke bigotry. Similarly, the social mask is problematic for gays, some of whom have learned to toy with persona through drag while others live painfully closeted lives behind rigid masks. Hopcke also questions the masks of gender expectations vigorously, finding new, less dichotomous ways of expressing the worrisome Jungian concepts of anima and animus, the cross-gendered selves within us. In all, a highly readable, conceptually fascinating study. Patricia Monaghan
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