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The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor's mask) is the face we turn to the world in order to deal with it. A persona is absolutely necessary, but the problem is that we often become identified with it, to the detriment of our self, a dilemma that the existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre recognized in his notion of mauvaise foi, or "bad faith," when one becomes associated exclusiv..
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Gross was a habitue of the decadent bohemian cafe society of Munich's Schwabing district--a kind of early-twentieth-century Haight-Ashbury--and embraced the radical social ideas prevalent in Monte Verita, the "Mountain of Truth," an early alternative community established in Ascona, Switzerland, in 1900, where as the historian Martin Green argued, "the counterculture began."15 Notables such as Hermann Hesse, Rudolf Steiner, Isadora Dun-can,..
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