Casey Winter
34 / Archetypes
Tags: alexithymia, anorexia nervosa, Casey Winter, complex, death, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, eating disorders, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hades, inferior function, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Persephone, Puella Aeterna, rebirth, suicidal, Trickster
April 4, 2018

Anorexia nervosa can be understood as an archetypal death-rebirth process. A typological analysis shows a psychological syndrome based in archetypal possession resulting from the dynamic configuration of INTJ preferences. The individual with anorexia undertakes her own heroic psychospiritual journey through the underworld to transform personal and collective consciousness.
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Bernard Neville
01 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollonian, archetype, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Bernard Neville, Demeter, Dionysian, Dionysos, Eros, Fe, Fi, greek gods, Hades, Hephaistos, Hera, Heracles, Herakles, Hermes, Hero, Hestia, mental processes, Ne, Ni, organizational development, Prometheus, Se, Si, Te, Ti, Trickster, Zeus
October 8, 2010

Organizational behavior, even more than individual, is shaped by myth and unconscious dynamics, rather than by rationality. I have noticed parallels between Jung’s observations of personality type and the gods who were at the centre of the classical Greeks’ understanding of motivation and behavior. The Greek pantheon can provide ways of talking about a wide range of value systems, energies, feeling states, behavior habits . . .
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