Unreal Self
As individuals, we often try to act in a way which is certainly not at par with our instinct. This often depends upon the social as well as the personal situation in which we are at the present. Humans try to adapt to a situation by moulding himself or herself in a way that it become easier for them to be in the situation. The self that is evident to the world around us is often not the real self we have, instead, it is the self which we decide to project as individuals, this is the unreal self
Although every individual have a real and a projected self or a personality, when there exists a huge difference between the real and the projected self, the individual is often at a predisposition to develop certain psychopathology. There arises difficulty in adaption and problems in dealing with everyday situations.