You and your job are two different things.

What it means

A title, a uniform or a career is part of the persona, the social role. It is useful, and it is not who you are. Lose the job and you are still there.

The source

"You and your job are two different things." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"In the matter of the persona, it is naturally easy to make it clear to a man that he and his profession are two different things."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'. Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "You and your job are two different things." mean?

A title, a uniform or a career is part of the persona, the social role. It is useful, and it is not who you are. Lose the job and you are still there.

Who said "You and your job are two different things."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'.

What is the original wording?

In the matter of the persona, it is naturally easy to make it clear to a man that he and his profession are two different things (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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