Christopher Ross
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, Christopher Ross, control, demonic, ENFJ, ENTJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), John Beebe, negotiating, parent archetype, parenting, past lives, reconciliation, tone
July 3, 2019

Later, I reflected that my tone, out of awareness at time of utterance, was the element to which she was reacting as a feeling type, and that my insistence on staying on topic showed up in her experience as my controlling her. Such was my first conscious application of Beebe’s sobering formulation of the monster-in-play when our eighth function breathes fire at another’s dominant function.
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Zachary Kampf
38 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: 27 Club, Anima, anima-possession, Daimon, Dionysus, ego, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), forever 27, inferior, INFP, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Opposing Personality, punk, shadow, Zachary Kampf
July 3, 2019

The environmental wounds to Cobain’s natural INFP disposition left his ego vulnerable to an anima invasion. It was she who allowed the instinctual power of the unconscious, in both its creative and destructive properties, to flow through the inferior function and overrun his personality, attempting to restore order by instigating archetypal modes of adaptation.
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Tamara Walker
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: A. Minghella, Animus, Cave of Swimmers, Daimon, Demon, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Heroine, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), László Almásy, Michael Ondaatje, mirrors, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puella, S. Zaentz, Senex, Tamara Walker, The English Patient, Trickster, Witch
July 3, 2019

The more I fell apart inside, the more I needed outside structure and order. One night I dreamed of an interior colorless and noiseless explosion that was followed by a voice that boomed, “You have the courage to let your interior world be chaos; there are no walls where there should be walls. You are a crab, and you need an exoskeleton.”
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