Elizabeth Martin
30 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: American culture, Anima, Beebe, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, Elizabeth Martin, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Opposing Personality, paradox, presidents, Senex, Texas, the Alamo, Trickster
April 5, 2017

With his unique thundering velvet hand approach, a Texan rarely says, “Shut up!” or “Don’t do that!” Instead, we hear, “Hush,” or “That would be ill-advised,” with a long drawl and a grin. The result is effective and charming, binding the man to his community. He easily compensates in robust, creative, and powerful ways to ensure full balance in his personality expression.
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Christine Drucker
28 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetype, Christine Drucker, Christopher Booker, differentiation, ESTJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), fairytale, Hans Christian Anderson, individuation, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), Self, Ugly Duckling
September 8, 2016

The image of the ugly duckling growing into a beautiful swan is a powerful and transformative symbol of hope and fulfillment for INFJs. As a metaphor for differentiation and the individuation process, the Ugly Duckling tale illuminates the struggle to separate from the demands of others in order to recognize the value and beauty of one’s essential self.
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Steve Myers
26 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: ambivalence, ambiversion, Axiom of Maria, caduceus, Carol Shumate, centroversion, collectivity, constructivism, differentiation, Erich Neumann, Freud, individuation, Isabel Briggs Myers, reductionism, Self, Steve Myers, transcendent function
January 14, 2016

Type as a problem needs to be rediscovered. Although from Jung’s point of view moderate one-sidedness does not usually cause major difficulties and is a stage of development to go through, ultimately being a type is a problem whereas contemporary type theory generally views it as a virtue. This has resulted in the transcendent function being overlooked.
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Is differentiation of an ego-syntonic function-attitude somehow different from differentiation of an ego-dystonic FA? Or maybe differentiation works the same for all function-attitudes and it’s just in the subsequent integration process that the distinction between ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic comes into play. Do we need a more refined understanding of typological development?
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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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Susan Viglione
23 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Captain Kirk, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), individuation, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), J. J. Abrams, Opposing Personality, Senex, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Susan Viglione, Trickster, USS Enterprise, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kirk develops depth and integrity as he learns to harness the power of his dominant function and come to terms with the shadow parts of his personality. Ultimately, he is also able to cultivate his ego-dystonic functions and realize a more integrated and mature self capable of fulfilling his potential for charismatic and visionary leadership.
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Angelo Spoto
07 / Archetypes
Tags: Angelo Spoto, Anima, anthropology, character, differentiation, ego- unconscious, Freud, inferior function, Jung, Levy-Bruhl, morality, myths, participation mystique, persona, polarity, primitive culture, projection, rituals, shadow, unconscious
October 4, 2011

The ego asks why anyone in his or her right mind should actually allow the troublesome aspects of his or her personality to be expressed. Jung’s answer is “for the development of character.” . . . For Jung, the inferior function is thus not just a trouble-maker extraordinaire, it is a moral exigency as well.
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