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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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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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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Casey Samulski
06 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Animus, archetype, career counseling, careers, Casey Samulski, David Brooks, ESFJ, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, Fe, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, ISFJ, John Beebe, Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Millennial generation, Millennials, Myers-Briggs, Ne, Opposing Personality, Se, Si, Ti
July 5, 2011

I think many of us would be quick to put our inferior and embarrassing Anima on the pyre, and happily satiate our Heroes. But the Hero needs to sacrifice its preeminence and allow the Anima to experiment and thrive if we are to find ourselves truly committed to what we do, not to mention fulfilled by it.
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