39 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Demonic/ Daimonic, distorted types, ENFJ, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, INFJ, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), judging functions, Khrystine Kelsey, love, Trickster
October 16, 2019

Being married is easily the hardest thing I have ever done. Marriage is an all-consuming project that requires energy, commitment, and sustained effort. Unlike my other projects, I can’t just ignore my marriage until inspiration strikes. Mostly, there’s no faking it. As an introvert in an extraverted world, faking it is a lot of how I survive.
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Van T. Bui
35 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, culture, Demonic/ Daimonic, ENTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, marriage, Van Bui, Vietnam
July 11, 2018

Igniting the spark of opposites produced during conflict can provide an opportunity for holding the tensions between the one-sided attitudes. The process requires confronting and embracing the forces of unconscious qualities, along with holding the tension and uniting of opposing forces, in order for the full expression of an individual’s potential to be revealed.
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Lori Green
35 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, anima/animus, Auguste Rodin, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, culture, Demonic/ Daimonic, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, inner marriage, Iron John, Lori Green, marriage, nigredo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Bly, warrior, writing
July 11, 2018

A marriage is not only a dynamic story of two but also a mirror of the innermost soul workings of one, a journey of the disparate parts of one’s self seeking integration, finding their way home. If I have learned anything about marriage it is this: the greatest legacy I can offer my outer marriage is soulful, abiding attention to my inner union.
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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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