Being yourself is a challenge for some. btrot60/Getty Images
ADVICE – Putting on your best profile, bluffing, playing a role or, conversely, keeping a low profile, putting on your invisibility cloak… So many behaviors that reflect the difficulty of accepting and valuing yourself.
Stay as you are ! The precept flourished in American personal development manuals for a long time before flooding European minds. Being yourself, becoming yourself, returning to yourself, so many invitations to deceptive simplicity. Freud was the first to show that the ego, which defines our identity, is both multiple and fluid, as it is composed of the conscious and the unconscious. Hence the difficulty of discovering and understanding it. Especially since, as Carl Gustav Jung pointed out, we all wear a “persona”, namely a social mask that allows us to adapt to the society, the environment in which we develop, so that our “I”, our uniqueness will blend easily. we, in the collective. Hence the difficulty of distinguishing between the public self and the private self, and secondly, the difficulty of asserting our uniqueness, what we really think, what we really are, what makes us unique and authentic.
A sense of comfort and consistency
So being yourself is a problem…
Source: Le Figaro
