What Does It Mean To Conformity?

As stated in Anthony (2001), Jung believed that through the persona we hope to get acceptance from others, and to adapt ourselves into society. The persona begins to form in early childhood, when children need to conform to the wishes and expectations of others, and learn that certain attitudes and behaviours are acceptable and others are not. They build acceptable traits into the persona and keep unacceptable traits hidden or repressed. These socially undesirable aspects are set to the personal unconscious, where they form new complex, the shadow, which is a sharp contrast to the persona, disowned subpersonality that presents itself in dreams as threatening figure possessing the same sex as the dreamer. As per Anthony (2001), for Jung animus