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# Supraordinate personality
- URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/supraordinate-personality/
- Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T02:37:00.000Z
- Description: Supraordinate personality names an aspect of the psyche superior to and transcending the ego—Jung usually describes it as the self. Related: total man; ego as part to whole.
- Author: Jae Botávn
- Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45

## 1\. Etymology

**Supraordinate personality** names an aspect of the psyche **superior to and transcending the ego**—Jung usually describes it as the **[self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/)**. Related: total man; ego as part to whole.

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## 2\. Plain summary

**Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common supraordinate-personality motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):**  
transcends ego; total man; usually = [self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/); ego as part to whole; dual-stamp SELF-1–4 only.

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## 3\. Academic elucidation

Hub / near-identity entry. Authority and §5 sample: [self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/) (SELF folded). No new supraordinate-personality leaf stamps this pass.

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## 4\. Lexicon

**Sharp (1991)**

> Supraordinate personality. An aspect of the psyche superior to, and transcending, the ego. (See also self.) … I usually describe the supraordinate personality as the “self,” thus making a sharp distinction between the ego… and the whole of the personality…

(Sharp, 1991) — cites CW 9i ¶¶314f.

> Self … (full quotes live on [self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/))

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

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**See also:** [self](https://www.descentpress.com/index/self/); [ego](https://www.descentpress.com/index/ego/); [superior-function](https://www.descentpress.com/index/superior-function/); [symbiosis](https://www.descentpress.com/index/symbiosis/).

## References

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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