About Personas
Throughout life, Persona builds our personality in two ways.
The First Persona
During our younger years, Persona semi-consciously infiltrates our subconscious, and then, practically from the subconscious, actualizes itself through our behaviour. This is especially evident during adolescence when the “artificiality” of adopted characteristics is visible almost non-stop. This is the moment when the subconscious is experimental, rebellious, and full of inner potency. Persona is built from the outside during this period. The basic constituents of this person are constituted when some of the basic archetypes are recognized on the outside. This archetype is imitated mainly in the mechanics of movement, with the assumption that the mechanics will lead to higher conceptual understandings of the archetype itself. During this time, we are mostly unaware of why imitation happens, except for the fact that we like it aesthetically. Aesthetic judgment is dominant during the articulation of the First Person.
Bridge period – Autocritical judgment
After enough lived First Personas and enough accumulated knowledge, we come to the conclusion that Persona is of instrumental character. Through enough lived Persons, we come to our personal constitutions of the Archetype. Within that Archetype (system of internal laws), the functioning of subconscious Persons is inadmissible, since their actualization disrupts the deeper-rooted structure, which we initially set out to build.
During this period, contempt for Persona is also shown, as we become aware of the fact of Persona’s subconscious influence.
The Second Persona
During adulthood, the constitution of Persona comes from consciousness. Persona is actualized as an adequate choice stylized on the basis of the current context of need and constituted through internal, clearly formulated ethical and aesthetic standards, which the person during the individuation declared to be the truest. Ethical judgment is dominant during the articulation of the Second Persona. This is the moment when consciousness is experimental, calm, and sees external potential.
This Persona can easily be mistaken for the personality itself since it is its direct exponent. However, unlike personality, this persona is a simplification of ideas and language and serves as their most illustrative example in relation to context. In its simplification lies its value because that simplification allows us a context in which we can be more elementary.
Final image:
Although these Persons, with the Bridge in Between, are presented chronologically through the story of life, they are actually a rhythmic image that is constantly active. The image “First Persona-Bridge-Second Persona” is a cycle that revolves throughout life. The First Persona has never been completely eradicated, the bridge is in constant repetition, and the Second Persona has never been completely defined. Here, too, we see a clear picture of the need for improvement through the same cycles with variations in semantics. These cycles, which are a necessary constituent of reality (movement), again give us a picture of the fractal configuration of the process.
Analogon of the tree
The first Persona can be easily recognized in a young tree, whose basic constituents are the root and the trunk. The root, like the first Persona, draws knowledge from the earth (the world; conventions) so that the trunk (growing up; the bridge) eventually articulates the crown (Fruit; Photosynthesis; the second Persona), through which it stands in relation to the sun (Helios; Logos; first laws; basics of the second Persona)