SubpersonalityIncoming LinksMarch 24th, 2021My own working definition of a Subpersonality is a semipermanent and semi-autonomous region of the personality capable of acting as a Person. *📙 SubpersonalitiesMy own working definition of a Subpersonality is a semipermanent and semi-autonomous region of the personality capable of acting as a personOnce a Subpersonality has been named, it becomes easier to use it in this kind of way, as a method of raising awareness of what is going on internally.It is interesting to see exactly what Freud says about the superego. And when we read about the nature of the superego, we find that it again answers very precisely to our description of a Subpersonality.One of the great pioneers in this field was Jung. Some of his first work, in the first ten years of this century, was with association tests, where the experimenter says a word and the subject comes back with the first word which comes into his or her head. Through the use of this device, Jung became convinced that within the person there were semi-autonomous systems which he called at first the ‘feeling-toned complexes.’ His first thought was that the complex was like a theme or leitmotiv in music, which came back in various forms in different circumstances, but later he saw it more as a Subpersonality.It often makes sense to ask a Subpersonality, ‘How old are you?’ or ‘What do you look like?’