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The anthropological and historical aspects of the term persona are examined, including its relation to the masks of theater, and in an older usage, the masks or imagines of departed ancestors. The author suggests that we might reintroduce the now-disused term imago into psychoanalytic discussions as transferential imago, to designate the person in analysis.