单词 | persona |
释义 | personan. 1. An assumed character or role, esp. one adopted by an author in his or her writing, or by a performer. Also: †a dramatic or literary character (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters > character assumed by author persona1732 I1858 1732 R. Bentley Pref. Paradise Lost sig. A3 If any one fancy this Persona of an Editor to be a mere Fantom, a Fiction, an Artifice to skreen Milton himself. 1787 J. Byng Diary 11 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 317 How easily too does an author..make his personae tipp guineas. 1830 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk 12 May (1835) I. 130 There is a subjectivity of the persona, or dramatic character, as in all Shakspeare's great creations. 1909 E. Pound (title) Personae. 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 401 The more closely his [sc. Byron's] poetic persona comes to resemble the epistolary persona of his letters to his male friends..the more authentic his poetry seems. 1983 Dragon Mag. Jan. 38/2 There are..a number of games out now about superheroes, in which players take on the personas of various costumed do-gooders of comic-book fame. 2. a. The aspect of a person's character that is displayed to or perceived by others. ΚΠ 1902 Philos. Rev. 11 571 What is so presented to us is the persona or mask by which he [sc. any individual] chooses to appear before the world, and by which the world sees and recognizes him. 1936 ‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging iii. 51 In the Dean's persona the episcopal idea had of late been rapidly developing. 1972 Observer 30 Jan. 9/6 His private persona sometimes contrasts sharply with his more abrasive public image. 1993 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. ii. 26/2 In the 1980's..Twitty revealed a more reflective persona. b. Psychology. In Jungian psychology: the outer or assumed aspect of character; a set of attitudes adopted by an individual to fit his or her perceived social role. Contrasted with anima. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Jung > [noun] > presentation of self mask1902 persona1917 1917 C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. (ed. 2) xv. 466 The persona is always identical with a typical attitude, in which one psychological function dominates, e.g. feeling, or thought, or intuition. 1923 H. G. Baynes tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. Types xi. 593 I term the outer attitude, or outer character, the persona; the inner attitude I term the anima, or soul. 1935 Trans. Philol. Soc. 66 We are born individuals. But to satisfy our needs we have to become social persons, and every social person is a bundle of rôles or personæ. 1966 D. Cox & E. Rolfe tr. E. Herzog Psyche & Death xv. 193 The dreamer has to answer for himself in his own right—he cannot claim the protection of the persona of his office. 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 286 Jungians see the persona as a universal usage, as something of an archetype. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1732 |
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