Supraordinate personality

1. Etymology

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.

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; ego as part to whole; dual-stamp SELF-1–4 only.

3. Academic elucidation

Hub / near-identity entry. Authority and §5 sample: self (SELF folded). No new supraordinate-personality leaf stamps this pass.

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)

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

See also: self; ego; superior-function; 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.