Casey Winter
34 / Archetypes
Tags: alexithymia, anorexia nervosa, Casey Winter, complex, death, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, eating disorders, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hades, inferior function, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Persephone, Puella Aeterna, rebirth, suicidal, Trickster
April 4, 2018
Anorexia nervosa can be understood as an archetypal death-rebirth process. A typological analysis shows a psychological syndrome based in archetypal possession resulting from the dynamic configuration of INTJ preferences. The individual with anorexia undertakes her own heroic psychospiritual journey through the underworld to transform personal and collective consciousness.
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James Kennard
24 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: alchemy, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dionysian, extraverted sensation (Se), Faust, individuation, inferior function, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), James Kennard, Nietzsche, overman, personification, Puer Aeternus, Secret of the Golden Flower, Self, shadow, thinking, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Übermensch
July 1, 2015
Rather than truly being able to move down to embrace the inferior function, to achieve “integrity in depth,” Nietzsche tries to “overcome” the problem of the personality. His fantastic intuitions are not wholly thought through, and so he is not able to deal with the real task of individuation, which asks us to ground consciousness in the reality of body and mind.
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