Shen Heyong, Yu Meng, Yin Fang
15 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: analytical psychology, Anima, China, Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), Garden of the Heart-Soul, I Ching, individuation, inferior function, inferiority complex, INFJ, integrity, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, John Beebe, Opposing Personality, shadow, Shen Heyong, Taoism, transcendent function, Yin Fang, Yu Meng
June 5, 2013

China has emphasized Se and Ne, leaving itself at present with a relatively weak Ni, even though Ni is China’s natural superior function and its historical birthright. A strong Ni, for example was the consciousness that gave birth to the three great Chinese religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, all of which anticipated Jung’s notion of the Self.
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Carol Shumate
08 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Angelo Spoto, Anima, Brad Pitt, Carol Shumate, Daimonic, demonic, Ed Norton, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Feeling, Fight Club, Helena Bonham Carter, Heroic, inferior function, inferiority complex, INTJ, INTP, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, James Hollis, John Beebe, Jung, Lenore Thompson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Ni, Paul Tieger, Se, Si, Te, Tyler Durden
December 1, 2011

Fight Club’s accomplishment is to elicit in us the instinctive fear, resistance, and embarrassment we all experience around the domain of our inferior function, whichever function that may be for us. The reward for sticking with the movie until the end is a catharsis that feels as if we have integrated our own inferior function.
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