Portal People and Carl Jung This Week's Note Portal People “The Portal Man” is an imaginary scenario I created as a kid. In this scene, a magic portal would appear and the “portal person” would tell me just what I needed to hear to accomplish my goal. Notably, the person stepping through the portal was not a parent, a sibling, a friend, or a teacher, but an older version on myself. It’s as if I internalized and narrativized the realization that I would have to solve my problems alone,...