Persona

Abstract

In my own life I’ve worn several masks: flower child hippie, rebel, cook, mother, analyst. In recent dreams I’m standing naked in a new phase of identity as a woman growing older in a culture that is looking for new forms.

Key Words:

• cartoons
• creativity
• Jung
• masks
• persona

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Susan Clements Negley

SUSAN CLEMENTS NEGLEY is a Jungian analyst in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. A graduate of the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris, her first career was as a professional chef. Her diploma thesis, “The Coniunctio Gastronomique: A Study in the Process of Individuation in Culinary Terms,” charts the mythic and alchemical underpinnings of this journey from the professional kitchen to the symbolic kitchen, the Psyche. Training coordinator for the Texas Seminar of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, she gives lectures on the alchemical kitchen as well her newest project Persona using the illustrations by Mark L. Smith. Correspondence: [email protected].

Mark L. Smith

MARK L. SMITH, PhD is an artist, writer, and gallerist. A co-founder of Flatbed Press in Austin, he is the co-author of Flatbed Press at 25 (University of Texas Press, 2016). In his art, he scavenges the urban environment for images and found materials that he utilizes in his collages and mixed-media works. A member of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, he lives and works in Johnson City, Texas.