Steve Myers
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Andrew Samuels, authenticity, Bill George, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, Edinger, ego-self axis, Epimetheus, hero myth, integrity, James MacGregor Burns, John Beebe, leadership, Lee Barr, opposites, personal unconscious, Prometheus, spine of personality, Steve Myers, transformation, transformational leadership
October 4, 2018

To develop our authentic individual self, we need to go deeper, into the cultural and phylogenetic layers of the collective unconscious. Importantly, from a leadership point of view, we become more aware of what our culture is repressing—aware of the unintended consequences of the culture even though we are participating in it. This enables us to progress, as individuals and as a society.
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Shen Heyong, Yu Meng, Yin Fang
15 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: analytical psychology, Anima, China, Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), Garden of the Heart-Soul, I Ching, individuation, inferior function, inferiority complex, INFJ, integrity, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, John Beebe, Opposing Personality, shadow, Shen Heyong, Taoism, transcendent function, Yin Fang, Yu Meng
June 5, 2013

China has emphasized Se and Ne, leaving itself at present with a relatively weak Ni, even though Ni is China’s natural superior function and its historical birthright. A strong Ni, for example was the consciousness that gave birth to the three great Chinese religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, all of which anticipated Jung’s notion of the Self.
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