Hi, there's a lot that can be said about the theoretical limitations of type in general, but the concept of persona recently entered my mind because it seemed relevant and important to typing.
I was curious and looked it up. Apparently Jung did consider Persona as relevant and even a healthy important part of a person's identity, suggesting that lack of persona is even bad. I think this also relates to Freud's idea of the superego as the part of identity that society wants from you, a more idealized and moral version of yourself. But I'd disagree with that and say persona sounds more like an external identity you use to adapt yourself to the society's expectations and morals and isn't arguably always moral or wise to do, but is also a mask that can become unhealthy, if you start to identity too much with it.
Basically, then it made me wonder, if we even disregard type altogether, this seems to be nature vs nurture, where I think type is supposed to relate more with nature and persona more with nurture.
And apparently in Socionics Gulenko's DCNH acts like a system of persona types. Gulenko might disagree with that generalization, but it's kind of neat how concepts seem to weave together sometimes.
Anyway, I'm curious what anyone thinks about this, even if you disagree with it completely.
I was curious and looked it up. Apparently Jung did consider Persona as relevant and even a healthy important part of a person's identity, suggesting that lack of persona is even bad. I think this also relates to Freud's idea of the superego as the part of identity that society wants from you, a more idealized and moral version of yourself. But I'd disagree with that and say persona sounds more like an external identity you use to adapt yourself to the society's expectations and morals and isn't arguably always moral or wise to do, but is also a mask that can become unhealthy, if you start to identity too much with it.
Basically, then it made me wonder, if we even disregard type altogether, this seems to be nature vs nurture, where I think type is supposed to relate more with nature and persona more with nurture.
And apparently in Socionics Gulenko's DCNH acts like a system of persona types. Gulenko might disagree with that generalization, but it's kind of neat how concepts seem to weave together sometimes.
Anyway, I'm curious what anyone thinks about this, even if you disagree with it completely.
