Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, conscious competence ladder, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018
To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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Maryann Barone-Chapman
13 / Archetypes / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Beebe, complex, demonic, dreams, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, Eight-Function Model, ENTP, Extraversion, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Father, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, inferior function, inferiority, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted intuiting, introverted thinking, ISTP, John Beebe, Maryann Barone-Chapman, Mother, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puella, Puer, Se, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Trickster, type falsification, Witch
January 8, 2013
In a dream she showed up as twins. One who was quiet and could play by herself (like her father, Ti) and the other who was very precocious as she hung upside down from a tree (like her mother, Te), reflecting the inherent nature of the Opposing Personality. From the outset of our work her battle seemed to reflect inferiority about not being an extravert.
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