Julia Grant
32 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypal idea, Beebe model, ENTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), Feeling, image, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Julia Grant, Sensing
October 4, 2017

The feeling function has its roots with the archetypal mother. My actual mother had limited tolerance for negative emotions from me. Her outbursts frightened me, and my own feelings terrified me even more. Hillman wrote that the mother-complex, “is the permanent trap of one’s reactions and values from earliest infancy, the box and walls in every situation whichever way one turns.”
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Jane Shaw
29 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: craniosacral therapy, extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, inferior, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, Jane Shaw, Marie-Louise von Franz, Opposing Personality, thinking
January 4, 2017

My Feeling is definitely not a matter of determining whether simply I like or dislike something, as Hillman suggested an undifferentiated Feeling function might do. For example, I feel a hundred different aspects of a rose—smell, vibration, gentleness, tone, harmony, etc.—and all of these come into play when I evaluate its suitability for a certain spot in the garden.
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Marlowe Embree
27 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: atheism, aut-aut, auxiliary, C. S. Lewis, causes, Christianity, convergence, Daniel Kahneman, divergence, diversity, dominant, ecumenical, egalitarianism, et-et, Feeling, Intuition, Islam, Judaism, Leonardo De Chirico, Maimonides, Marlowe Embree, mysticism, pluralism, polarization, Pope Francis, Quran, rationalism, reasons, relativism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Ruth Benedict, science, Sensation, spirituality, theology, thinking, tolerance, triumphalism
April 6, 2016

People of different types are prone to think about religion and spirituality in different ways. While type obviously does not determine a person’s religious beliefs, type is a lens through which one views the world of religion and spirituality, and as a result, contentious religious differences are often, in part, typological differences in disguise.
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Husbands and wives frequently feel like their marriages broke down because their spouses didn’t hear what they were saying. Therefore, the mediator’s ability to see and hear what each party is saying, and to reframe it so that the other party can see and hear it, can make or break their ability to reach a settlement.
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Deborah Quibell
18 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypes, David Whyte, Deborah Quibell, dreams, Eros, Feeling, Hafiz, James Hillman, Mary Oliver, Meister Eckhart, poetry, Rumi
February 5, 2014

Like the feeling function itself, poetry captures moments, and it is by feeling into these moments that something else opens and experience is transformed into moments of encounter. Often, the word “encounter” implies a “coming against” something, a meeting that holds impact. Thus, the feeling function, by creating an encounter, demands courage.
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Mary Anne Sutherland
17 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: 16 types, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, at-risk students, attention deficit disorder, dropouts, exceptional needs, Extraverts, Feeling, high-performing, individualized instruction, Introverts, learning-disabled, Mary Anne Sutherland, Sensing
November 5, 2013

These at-risk students taught us how to teach everyone. I have described my classroom set-up as an integral part of the instruction. … Intuitively, before knowing about type, I had set up my classroom to accommodate multiple learning styles. Even the ISTJ students, who tend to like the traditional classroom set-up, performed better in my classroom.
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Douglass J. Wilde
10 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary, dominant, Douglass J. Wilde, extraverted sensing, Feeling, INTJ, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, Intuition, MBTI, Ni, preference clarity index, Se, Sensing, thinking, Ti, type dynamics
May 2, 2012

I describe here how I discovered a new way to find the function-attitudes—the ‘building blocks’ of personality type—associated with any set of MBTI® results. I discovered this method almost by accident. My goal was to form teams of graduate design students working together to conceive, build, demonstrate, and report on a physical project.
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Laurie B. Lippin, Ph.D.
09 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anti-Semitism, archetype, Ashkenazi Jew, Carol Pearson, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, diversity, ENFP, ENTJ, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, Hero, introvert, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, Intuitive, ISTJ, Jewish, Jungian, Latina, Laurie Lippin, Magician, MBTI, Ne, Sage, Seeker, Sensing, Si, Wanderer
February 1, 2012

In the MBTI® I found the self-understanding that I had been lacking; I saw myself finally as less of a dilettante than an adaptive explorer, and a powerful implementer of all I had learned. I had been collecting knowledge and skills but had continued to be unclear about my “use of self.” I finally saw my journey as self-actualization.
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Carol Shumate
08 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Angelo Spoto, Anima, Brad Pitt, Carol Shumate, Daimonic, demonic, Ed Norton, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Feeling, Fight Club, Helena Bonham Carter, Heroic, inferior function, inferiority complex, INTJ, INTP, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, James Hollis, John Beebe, Jung, Lenore Thompson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Ni, Paul Tieger, Se, Si, Te, Tyler Durden
December 1, 2011

Fight Club’s accomplishment is to elicit in us the instinctive fear, resistance, and embarrassment we all experience around the domain of our inferior function, whichever function that may be for us. The reward for sticking with the movie until the end is a catharsis that feels as if we have integrated our own inferior function.
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Lisa Schuetz
08 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Feeling, Freud, Graphology, Handwriting, id, INTJ, Introversion, Intuition, Jung, Lisa Schuetz, Sensing, thinking
December 1, 2011

The contrasts between the handwriting of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung show that they had very different temperaments and give credence to speculation that the difference in their personalities was an important factor in the final dissolution of their friendship. Freud’s writing is very complex and contradictory; Jung’s very simplified and balanced.
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Liana Lianov
07 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: behavior change, Brue, cognitive behavioral therapy, energy balance, ENFP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, fitness, health, health coach, healthy habits, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, Intuition, judging, Liana Lianov, lifestyle medicine, Ne, perceiving, positive psychology, Rollnick, Sensing, Si, stage of change theory, stress, thinking, Ti, trans-theoretical model, type
October 4, 2011

Type enthusiasts may wonder whether we can purposely apply our personality preferences—which are comfortable ‘tools’ to make habit change a little easier. Speaking as a lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a type enthusiast for the past two decades, I believe we can. . . . Type affects what motivates us and how we learn new skills . . .
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John Beebe
06 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetypal, archetype, auxiliary, Buddha, caretaking, Daimon, dominant, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Feeling, General George Patton, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, Intuition, ISTJ, Japan, John Beebe, Kyoto, Nara, Ne, Ni, Obama, Puella, Puer Aeternus, Se, Senex, Si, superior, Te, tertiary, thinking, Ti, Trickster, typology
July 5, 2011

… A wise employee will come to understand the culture of the company … and recognize that the team has long since developed a certain way of taking care of others. The team uses its auxiliary function, not yours, or the one your tertiary Child expects it to use. You cannot expect an organization to take care of you in the way that you want …
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