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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Stephen T. Weed
31 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Beebe model, function couplings, function pairs, function-attitude couplings, INFJ, ISTJ, John Beebe, John Giannini, Robert McAlpine, Stephen Weed, Trickster, type development, type research
July 6, 2017
Giannini’s model differs importantly from Myers’ in that it does not restrict us to just one predominant function pair associated with one’s preferred perceiving and judging processes. His model provides a greater degree of flexibility in the developmental expression of type-related behaviors as well as enhanced adaptive power for engaging and responding to our various environments.
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Diana Arias Heñao
31 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ballet, Barbara Hershey, Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Demon, Diana Arias-Henao, Eight-Function Model, ESTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Swan Lake, Trickster, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
July 6, 2017
The black swan represents those aspects of the inferior function that evoke surprise, spontaneity, and freedom from control and rigidity. It is here where the interpretation of the black swan requires an open mind, not to play the role merely, but to embody what seems foreign and necessary to us from a more authentic and personal place.
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