personality writ large

is the great arc of human potententialities from which every culture selects characteristics and elaborates with greater strength and intensity than an individual could ever do.

On this basis she developed her own special contribution, her view of human cultures as 'personality writ large,' her view that it was possible to see each culture, no matter how small and primitive or how large and complex, as having selected from the great arc of human potentialities certain characteristics and then having elaborated them with greater strength and intensity than any single individual could ever do in one lifetime. (v)

personality writ large, n.All

personality writ large