Zachary Kampf
34 / Archetypes
Tags: Alien, Anima, Bill Pullman, Daimonic, demonic, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, ego, extraterrestrial, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Glen Slater, Hero, Independence Day, individuation, inferior function, inflation, INTP, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jeff Goldblum, monsters, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puer, Starship Troopers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trickster, UFO, Will Smith, Zachary Kampf
April 4, 2018

The alien invasion can then be viewed as a necessary fragmentation of the psyche, occurring when the ego is too rigidly identified with the dominant function. The crisis brings renewal by breaking apart the ego identity so that the previously unrealized functions can be differentiated and integrated, thereby transforming the conscious attitude.
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Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Ti), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018

To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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Lori Green
33 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Amy Adams, Arrival, Beebe model, Dave Eggers, Demon/Daimon, Denis Villeneuve, Eternal Child, fifth essence, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), Jeremy Renner, Lori Green, oceanic, quintessentia, Trickster
January 10, 2018

The film is arguably an example of INFJ art itself, providing a window into the awakening INFJ nature essential to the culture’s efforts to address power imbalances and welcome a new consciousness toward that which is deemed “other.” This paradigm shift ultimately requires humans to become active participants in an awakening consciousness.
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Teresa Nowak
33 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, archetypal ego, archetypal psychology, Beebe, collective unconscious, Demon/Daimon, dream imagery, dream interpretation, dream tending, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), guided imagery, Hero, images, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), James Hillman, Mother, Opposing Personality, personal unconscious, personality spine, Puella Aeterna, Stephen Aizenstat, Teresa Nowak, Trickster, Witch
January 10, 2018

“Interpretations” of dreams must be filtered through a layer of consciousness. One contribution of dream tending as an effective tool for Jungian dream work is the value it places on the sensing function as an imaginal way of knowing. Thus, it de-emphasizes the intuitive and thinking functions many Jungians use in traditional dream analysis and brings sensing and feeling to the fore.
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Jennifer Degnan Smith
31 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Athens, auxiliary, Critical Parent, Demon, ESFP, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Greece, Greek, Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jennifer Degnan Smith, Opposing Personality, projection, Trickster, western civilization
July 6, 2017

Like the water that surrounds their country, the Greeks are very fluid and go with the flow. They are passionate and capable. However, their heroic use of extraverted sensing has contributed to the current economic crisis. The Greek hero must ease his extraverted sensing grip and use puer extraverted thinking energy to build analytical and efficient systems.
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Lisa A. Pounders
30 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Chocolat (film), culture, Daimonic, demonic, Eight-Function Model, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, John Beebe, Lasse Hallström, Lisa Pounders, Opposing Personality, Parent, shadow
April 5, 2017

“Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside whose people believed in tranquillité.” This opening indicates that the psychological orientation of the village is one of peace and calmness, agreeability and order, suggesting that the village has certain values through which it judges situations—in other words a feeling function is at work.
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Elizabeth Martin
30 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: American culture, Anima, Beebe, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, Elizabeth Martin, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Opposing Personality, paradox, presidents, Senex, Texas, the Alamo, Trickster
April 5, 2017

With his unique thundering velvet hand approach, a Texan rarely says, “Shut up!” or “Don’t do that!” Instead, we hear, “Hush,” or “That would be ill-advised,” with a long drawl and a grin. The result is effective and charming, binding the man to his community. He easily compensates in robust, creative, and powerful ways to ensure full balance in his personality expression.
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Ashley Crawford
26 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Ashley Crawford, ESTJ, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), John Giannini, Lois Lowry, Puer/Puella, The Giver, Trickster, Witch/Senex
January 14, 2016

Jonas’ position as Receiver of Memory provides us with a vivid way to understand what is meant by introverted sensing per se as it draws out the sensory aspect of memory. It is in the way the community has found it necessary to contain these memories in an individual that we can begin to see how the archetypal role of Si plays out for the community as a whole.
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Marta Koonz
26 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, Astrid, dragon, ego, ESTP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gobber, Hero, Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Marta Koonz, Night Fury, Parent, persona, Self, Stoick, Toothless, Trickster
January 14, 2016

Just as Hiccup’s superior function, his Hero, has been wounded by his culture and his father, this dragon is wounded as well, a figure we will come to see as Hiccup’s inner truth. This is the story of an individual recognizing the wounding that has occurred, and claiming back his authentic power by developing his Heroic function.
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Chris Beach
21 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Chris Beach, dream work, dreams, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), Parent, Senex, shadow, Trickster, Witch
October 1, 2014

If the dreamer is willing to work a dream from a psychological type perspective and the therapist has the knowledge to do so, then bringing type to dream work can be helpful. I utilize this approach either when I see an aspect of psychological type present or when I cannot make heads or tails of a dream by taking other approaches.
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Jennifer Soper
21 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality / The Red Book
Tags: active imagination, Ammonius, Anima, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, extraverted sensing (Se), Hero, individuation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Jennifer Soper, mandala, personal unconscious, The Red Book, the Red One
October 1, 2014

First comes the development of the Hero; next is the “fall,” which brings awareness that something is missing, leading to the rejection of the heroic inflation and the longing for more. Then comes the real “journey,” holding the tension between our highly conscious dominant/superior function and our much less conscious inferior function.
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Vicky Jo Varner
17 / Archetypes
Tags: A Trip to the Moon, Anima, Animus, archetype, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, Eros, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Georges Méliès, Good Parent, Hero, Hugo, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, John Beebe, Logos, Martin Scorsese, Ne, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puer Aeternus, Se, Te, Ti, Trickster, Vicky Jo Varner, Witch
November 5, 2013

“Everything has a purpose, clocks tell you the time, trains take you to places. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ”
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