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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Lori Green
40 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Cloud of Unknowing, Demonic/ Daimonic, dreams, extraverted sensation (Se), identity, image, individuation, inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Lori Green, Paul Levy, Quantum Revelation, Self
March 19, 2020

I suddenly noticed all the bright, beautiful one-inch tiles lining the pool. How had I not seen them before? Each of these little cobalt blue squares bore witness to my laps through the water. I decided, in the spirit of play, to imagine that every one of these tiny tiles represented $5000. For the time in which I swam, I engaged this unexpected image.
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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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Julia Grant
32 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypal idea, Beebe model, ENTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), Feeling, image, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Julia Grant, Sensing
October 4, 2017

The feeling function has its roots with the archetypal mother. My actual mother had limited tolerance for negative emotions from me. Her outbursts frightened me, and my own feelings terrified me even more. Hillman wrote that the mother-complex, “is the permanent trap of one’s reactions and values from earliest infancy, the box and walls in every situation whichever way one turns.”
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Diana Arias Heñao
31 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ballet, Barbara Hershey, Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Demon, Diana Arias-Henao, Eight-Function Model, ESTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Swan Lake, Trickster, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
July 6, 2017

The black swan represents those aspects of the inferior function that evoke surprise, spontaneity, and freedom from control and rigidity. It is here where the interpretation of the black swan requires an open mind, not to play the role merely, but to embody what seems foreign and necessary to us from a more authentic and personal place.
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Walter Smith
29 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, Demon/Daimon, evil, extraverted sensation (Se), inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISTJ, Satan, Trickster, Walter Smith
January 4, 2017

What is evil? We know it when we see it. Evil is subjective; it often depends on our point of view. For example, when the two women asked if they could tell me what I did wrong, I had a choice; I could either see their offer as helpful or “evil” in the sense that they were out to destroy my work. Can we utilize the power of psychological type to better understand what evil is?
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Jane Shaw
29 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: craniosacral therapy, extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, inferior, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, Jane Shaw, Marie-Louise von Franz, Opposing Personality, thinking
January 4, 2017

My Feeling is definitely not a matter of determining whether simply I like or dislike something, as Hillman suggested an undifferentiated Feeling function might do. For example, I feel a hundred different aspects of a rose—smell, vibration, gentleness, tone, harmony, etc.—and all of these come into play when I evaluate its suitability for a certain spot in the garden.
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25 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: autism, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hasmik Michelle Israelyan, hyper-arousal, hypo-arousal, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISTJ, Temple Grandin, Trickster
October 7, 2015

The way an autistic individual perceives the world is of significant interest to researchers, for neurological differences have been found to impact the autistic individual’s perception and information-processing tremendously. Because Jung’s typology frames investigation of the psyche in terms of such mental processes, it can provide a new perspective on this very complex condition.
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Lauren Morgan Wuest
23 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, Daimon, Demon, Eight-Function Model, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), Gravity, grief, Hank Williams, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jr., Lauren Morgan Wuest, Marie-Louise von Franz, Puella Aeterna, shadow, Trickster, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kowalsky’s self-sacrifice can be seen as the Animus acting as “the door through which all the figures of the unconscious come into consciousness.” His extraverted feeling is giving Stone a much-needed lesson: She must stop holding on to a situation that is no longer life-giving. It is time to let go of her debilitating prison of pain—and of her former self—so she can move forward.
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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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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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Robert McAlpine
11 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, auxiliary, C. G. Jung, Critical Parent, dominant, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitudes, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Isabel Myers, ISTJ, ISTP, John Beebe, MBTI, mental processes, Opposing Personality, preferences, Robert McAlpine, Sensing, tertiary, thinking
September 5, 2012

The type code had another unintended effect, which was to elevate the E-I and the J-P dichotomies to the same level as the functions. I had always thought of myself as an Introvert and nothing else. I had also been taught that I was a Judging type and I had been told that “J’s decide quickly,” but that was not true for me. So there were holes in my preference framework where my experience did not fit what I was taught.
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