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# Personality
- URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/personality/
- Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T01:58:29.000Z
- Description: Personality names aspects of the soul as it functions in the world. Related: individuality; differentiation from collective values embodied in the persona.
- Author: Jae Botávn
- Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45

## 1\. Etymology

**Personality** names **aspects of the soul as it functions in the world**. Related: [individuality](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuality/); differentiation from collective values embodied in the [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/).

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## 2\. Plain summary

Development of personality requires differentiation from collective values, especially those carried by the [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/). Change of milieu can strike a different “character” each time—social vs domestic faces. If a person is only the plaything of circumstance and expectations, Jung says there is no real character: not individual but collective. An individual would keep the same character across attitudes, expressing [individuality](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuality/) in each state rather than being identical with the attitude of the moment.

**Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common personality motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):**  
soul-in-the-world; vs [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/) collective values; milieu-altered faces; social vs domestic character; no real character if only collective; [individuality](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuality/) across attitudes; dual-stamp [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/) / [individuality](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuality/).

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## 3\. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology personality is **soul-function in the world requiring individuality**—CW 6 ¶¶798f. Descent Press keeps Sharp in §4; Samuels: no dedicated head this pass (language under persona/individuation). Prefer CW 6 ¶¶798f.

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## 4\. Lexicon

**Sharp (1991)**

> Personality. Aspects of the soul as it functions in the world. (See also individuality.) … For the development of personality, differentiation from collective values, particularly those embodied in and adhered to by the persona, is essential. … such a man has no real character at all: he is not individual but collective…

(Sharp, 1991) — cites CW 6 ¶¶798f in Sharp’s lemma.

**Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986)** — no dedicated *personality* head

> *(No dedicated Samuels head.)* Related under persona / individuation / individuality

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## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

> These reflections show that even in normal individuals character-splitting is by no means an impossibility… A particular milieu necessitates a particular attitude… In my view the answer… should be that such a man has no real character at all: he is not individual but collective, the plaything of circumstance and general expectations. Were he individual, he would have the same character despite the variation of attitude… He puts on a mask…  
> (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, pp. 641–642, ¶799–800)

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**See also:** [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/); [individuality](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuality/); [individuation](https://www.descentpress.com/index/individuation/); [ego](https://www.descentpress.com/index/ego/); [self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/).

## References

Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types \[Definitions\]. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), *The collected works of C. G. Jung* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 6, pp. 641–642, ¶799–800). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1921)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). *A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis*. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). *Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts*. Inner City Books.

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