![]() ![]() The greater the distance between the good and bad internalized objects due to splitting and denial, the more exaggerated the persona. Prior to an acute episode it is not unusual…to have a period of increased persona identification, corresponding with the increased activity of the primitive defense mechanisms of splitting, denial, and projective identification. As Hudson contends, people who encounter horrific events, like war, often resort to identification with a false persona as a defense mechanism: The masks one wears as a compromise with the self and perceived societal expectations can become dangerous in some situations of extreme trauma, one’s subconscious need for a false persona can become elevated. The masks they wear serves as a front to society and the characters they interact with, but sometimes characters are so effectively masked that they become unclear of their own realities, and become unreliable narrators. Oftentimes characters are so enveloped within false or unreliable personas that they fool and confuse the reader. The concept of the mask as persona is common in literature, and global modernity is no exception. It is a social role or mask which acts as a mediator between the inner world and the social world, and which constitutes the compromise between the individual and society” (Hudson 54). Rachel McCoppin, University of Minnesota CrookstonĬarl Jung connects the idea that the mask is the persona one presents to the world “the persona acts…to conceal the true nature of the individual. ![]()
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