Jungian Archetypes and Public vs Private Persona. He also told me that if you meet him in the office and then at his home, you will question yourself that is this a same person that we have in the office. My cousin told me that doesn’t matter how he behave in the office but outside the work he is a completely different person. But for the relevance of this list, we are going to think of it as two different types of people: the public and the private. I'm pretty much the same everywhere and I have to force myself to be professional at work and sometimes I fail. This quote shows that humans have two different personalities which can be the opposite from one an another.
Published September 6, 2016

The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. “Nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator,” Hannah Arendt observed in her insightful inquiry into being vs. appearing and our impulse for self-display. I do not know which of us has written this page.

It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition.

He also told me that if you meet him in the office and then at his home, you will question yourself that is this the same person that we have in the office. Here's an example. 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Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/06/borges-and-i/ Personality also refers to a person’s beliefs and its actions regarding their well-being. People mostly hide their private-self and show others their public-self which can be the opposite from the other one. Shakespeare really did say it best and this reality - that we all play our parts - is infinitely fascinating. However integrated our layered identity may be, our twined nature stands like a stereogram — two separate and noticeably different views, composed into a single three-dimensional image of personhood only through the special focal mechanism of our own consciousness. No one has addressed this existential sundering more elegantly than Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899–June 14, 1986) in “Borges and I” — his classic parable of selfhood, exploring the divide between private person and public persona that each of us must live with and live into. A novel called The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is about the good and evil personalities in an individual. In the article by Nigel Nicholson in which he talks about the behavior in different self-situation: “Psychology is useful to manage because it provides a new and proactive way to think about human nature; it also offers a framework for understanding why people tend to act as they do in organizational settings.” (Paragraph 2nd). Your support really matters. The public people are rather well-understood because they are an open book for all to see and read. Could be an E and/or F thing, since thats the difference between me and you guys. In other words, the environment which an individual live in, drives them to pretend what they are not instead of what they are. A forum community dedicated to all ranges of personality types and people. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.” And yet, inseparable as the parts may be from the whole, we each contain multitudes — not only psychologically, but even biologically — nowhere more so than when it comes to the bifurcation between our inner and outer selves. Come join the discussion about health, behavior, care, testing, personality types, and more! In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price. 2. The experiment went wrong which leaves him with two different personalities, one is Dr. Jekyll and the second one is Mr. Hyde who went to the dark side: “It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness” (Page 95). In other words people have different personalities so they show their original self to those who they are comfortable with and the other personality to those who they are less comfortable with. Complement it with philosopher Amelie Rorty on the seven layers of personhood in literature and life and Rebecca Goldstein on what makes you and your childhood self the same person despite a lifetime of change, then revisit Borges on writing, public opinion, and our private participation in collective joy and collective tragedy. VerticalScope Inc., 111 Peter Street, Suite 901, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2H1, Canada. Brain Pickings participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. According to Nicholson the behaviors change in different setting is normal in human nature. JavaScript is disabled. Every story has two sides and it is the same with personality because people usually behave differently based on the setting. People use words like “Personal Life” or “Personal Space” as a barrier to hide their private-self behind it. This shows that people like to hide what they like about themselves and don’t want others to know about and also don’t let them to make judgement over them.


However integrated our layered identity may be, our twined nature stands like a stereogram — two separate and noticeably different views, composed into a single three-dimensional image of personhood only through the special focal mechanism of our own consciousness. In the novel Dr. Jekyll develops a formula which separates the good and evil forces. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar.

Public self is the perspective other people view an individual as portrayed in public information, interaction with others and public action. People like to show their different personalities and behaviors based on their relationship with other people; for example, private-self for the ones who are close to them and the public-self for those who are less close to them. That’s why the personalities are divided into private-self and public-self.