ABSTRACT
Once any human being crosses the line into an eruption of unbearable anxiety or into a collapse of unbearable depression, a compensatory defense will come into play (A. Freud, 1936/1966), or, if you prefer, a security operation (Sullivan, 1956). If this defense or security operation continues, it gradually rigidifies into the patient's character (Reich, 1931, 1949), or personality, or idiom (Coren, 2001). It is a rigid one-sidedness, in terror of what it has dissociated. Jung called it the persona, or an identification with a god (Jung, 1916/1953).
