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Article: Carl Gustav Jung 1916
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Carl Gustav Jung 1916
"There are indeed people who lack a developed persona--"Canadians
who know not Europe's sham politeness"--blundering from one social
solecism to the next, perfectly harmless and innocent, soulful bores
or appealing children, or, if they are women, spectral Cassandras
dreaded for their tactlessness, eternally misunderstood, never knowing
what they are about, always taking forgiveness for granted, blind
to the world, hopeless dreamers. From them we can see how a neglected
persona works, and what one must do to remedy the evil."
An unexpected but explicit reference to the character or the personality
of Canadians occurs in the ...