Gelareh Khoie
42 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Artemis, auxiliary, axis mundi, Demonic/ Daimonic, dream, ego, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Gelareh Khoie, goddess, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), lunar, moon, myth, ocean, shadow, somnambulism, superior function, Trickster, yin
December 16, 2020

I’ve discovered that the functions express their unique influence through the tao of the Greek goddess Artemis—an archetypal propensity richly endowed with autonomous power, fierce agency, determined focus, profound self-sufficiency and capacity for self-care, and enormous ability to maintain a connection with the purity of a thalassic and lunar soul.
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Soha Al-Jurf
41 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Animus, archetypal father, Cassandra, Cronos, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, ego, ENFJ, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Hero, individuation, inferior, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, Mother, Saturn, shadow, Soha Al-Jurf, superior, voice, Witch
September 16, 2020

Cassandra represents the difficulty of expressing one’s own truth in a way that is persuasive and influential in the world, particularly a truth that is not androcentric. The weakening of the voice of the dream ego represents the suppression and repression of the feminine that results from continuing to rely on old ways of exerting influence.
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Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
41 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, coronavirus, Covid-19, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant function, dreams, ego, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Pan, Panacea, pandemic, Pandora, serpent, snake, Trickster, Zeus
September 16, 2020

Humanity is being summoned to change its perspective in an assortment of ways. When a pandemic wipes the calendar clean, the heroes are not the rich, successful, and scholarly; the heroes are those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy, the people who are risking their health to maintain normalcy during isolation and self-quarantining.
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39 / Archetypes
Tags: alchemy, Anima, Animus, dragon, ego, fairy tale, Hero, individuation, love, marriage, myth, nigredo, Rainer Maria Rilke, rubedo, Sam Allevato III, Self, shadow
October 16, 2019

The world of Rilke’s tale is one besieged by the Dragon. This is the world of the wasteland, where people are living inauthentic lives. In most fairy tales, a successful hero is the answer to the wasteland. Rilke, however, presents the tale not as a deliverance from the Dragon but rather as a slow descent into the shadowy realm of the Dragon.
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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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Zachary Kampf
34 / Archetypes
Tags: Alien, Anima, Bill Pullman, Daimonic, demonic, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, ego, extraterrestrial, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Glen Slater, Hero, Independence Day, individuation, inferior function, inflation, INTP, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jeff Goldblum, monsters, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puer, Starship Troopers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trickster, UFO, Will Smith, Zachary Kampf
April 4, 2018

The alien invasion can then be viewed as a necessary fragmentation of the psyche, occurring when the ego is too rigidly identified with the dominant function. The crisis brings renewal by breaking apart the ego identity so that the previously unrealized functions can be differentiated and integrated, thereby transforming the conscious attitude.
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Joanna Capelin
32 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Apollo, archetype, ego, ENTP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, Hermetic, integration, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Joanna Capelin, myth, shadow
October 4, 2017

The mythic relationship between Apollo and Hermes personifies a working relationship between two entirely different styles of being the world. Apollo, lord of reason, light, and order, appears fascinated by Hermes—a figure associated with trickery, liminal spaces, and movement. Despite the two gods’ intrinsic tensions, they build a lasting relationship.
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Mark Hunziker
28 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ego, Eternal Child, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitude, Heroic, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), John Beebe, Mark Hunziker, Parent
September 8, 2016

I allowed myself to take a little vacation from my single-mindedness and felt a shift in attitude and awareness almost immediately. My linear, tunnel-vision mindset relaxed, and I began to notice and embrace information, insights, and opportunities that came along unexpectedly and felt important despite having no logical connection with the task at hand.
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Mark Hunziker
27 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ego, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, function-attitudes, identity, INTP, Mark Hunziker, shadow, type development, world views
April 6, 2016

Within the function-attitude preference hierarchy for each type, there are three natural groupings which seem to reflect a “Me, Spirit, and Other” delineation and describe our areas of “strength, vulnerability and creativity, and defense,” respectively. Is it more than a coincidence that this configuration has parallels in most traditional world views, as “Earth, Heaven, and Underworld?”
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Marta Koonz
26 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, Astrid, dragon, ego, ESTP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gobber, Hero, Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Marta Koonz, Night Fury, Parent, persona, Self, Stoick, Toothless, Trickster
January 14, 2016

Just as Hiccup’s superior function, his Hero, has been wounded by his culture and his father, this dragon is wounded as well, a figure we will come to see as Hiccup’s inner truth. This is the story of an individual recognizing the wounding that has occurred, and claiming back his authentic power by developing his Heroic function.
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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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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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