Mark Hunziker
15 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Anima, Animus, archetype, attitude, auxiliary, conscious, Critical Parent, Demon, development, dominant, ego, egodystonic, egosyntonic, Eternal Child, extraverted thinking (Te), Father, function-attitude, Hero, Heroine, hierarchy, inferior, introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Hunziker, Mother, Opposing Personality, preference, Puella, Puer, Senex, shadow, tertiary, Trickster, unconscious, Witch
June 5, 2013

Our often-used shorthand illustration with a line drawn between the four allegedly conscious function-attitudes and the four “unconscious” ones is misleading because consciousness is not a sufficiently reliable characteristic for distinguishing these two sides of the psyche’s typology. It’s related to what distinguishes them, but only as a secondary and fairly unpredictable characteristic.
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Robert McAlpine
11 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, auxiliary, C. G. Jung, Critical Parent, dominant, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitudes, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Isabel Myers, ISTJ, ISTP, John Beebe, MBTI, mental processes, Opposing Personality, preferences, Robert McAlpine, Sensing, tertiary, thinking
September 5, 2012

The type code had another unintended effect, which was to elevate the E-I and the J-P dichotomies to the same level as the functions. I had always thought of myself as an Introvert and nothing else. I had also been taught that I was a Judging type and I had been told that “J’s decide quickly,” but that was not true for me. So there were holes in my preference framework where my experience did not fit what I was taught.
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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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