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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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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