James Kennard
24 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: alchemy, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dionysian, extraverted sensation (Se), Faust, individuation, inferior function, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), James Kennard, Nietzsche, overman, personification, Puer Aeternus, Secret of the Golden Flower, Self, shadow, thinking, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Übermensch
July 1, 2015

Rather than truly being able to move down to embrace the inferior function, to achieve “integrity in depth,” Nietzsche tries to “overcome” the problem of the personality. His fantastic intuitions are not wholly thought through, and so he is not able to deal with the real task of individuation, which asks us to ground consciousness in the reality of body and mind.
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Carol Shumate
24 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: Adam Grant, ambiversion, ambivert, Carol Shumate, confirmation bias, Daniel Pink, differentiation, Extraversion, individuation, Introversion, Jung & Adler & Freud, normal vs. pathological, Sonu Shamdasani, the personal equation, type bias, type development
July 1, 2015

“Ambiversion”—the equal development of extraversion and introversion in an individual—has become a popular notion of late but it has led to some misinterpretations of Jung’s typology—specifically, to an idealization of this in-between state …
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Hong-Wen Chen
24 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: cancer, death, dying, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hong-Wen Chen, hospice care, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFJ, oncology, palliative care, quality of life, Taiwan, World Health Organization
July 1, 2015

Facing death is an event that challenges how the various functions in the psyche work together in everyone—cooperating, compensating, decompensating, or even in integrating with each other. Since most people in their conscious lives are more familiar with the adaptations of life, not of death, facing death often forces us to face our inferior function.
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