Jonathan Elias
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Eros, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), individuation, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), James Hillman, Jonathan Elias, marriage, Opposing Personality, projection, Psyche
April 25, 2021
Couples often wonder whether they are “ready” for such a commitment. I look for situations when each person’s “sore spot” is activated. When a couple is able to hold the tension of the activated inferior function and find a way to make their relationship a vehicle for the development of personality, then they are “ready” for marriage in one of the most crucial ways.
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Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018
Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Jennifer Degnan Smith
31 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Athens, auxiliary, Critical Parent, Demon, ESFP, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Greece, Greek, Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jennifer Degnan Smith, Opposing Personality, projection, Trickster, western civilization
July 6, 2017
Like the water that surrounds their country, the Greeks are very fluid and go with the flow. They are passionate and capable. However, their heroic use of extraverted sensing has contributed to the current economic crisis. The Greek hero must ease his extraverted sensing grip and use puer extraverted thinking energy to build analytical and efficient systems.
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The typical debate—‘Profiling is bad!’ vs. ‘We’re not profiling!’—has not been particularly productive. Racial and ethnic stereotyping continues despite decades of public condemnation. It seems to me that the questions we really need to be considering are more along the lines of: ‘What is profiling?’ ‘How and when does it lead to bad outcomes?’
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Angelo Spoto
07 / Archetypes
Tags: Angelo Spoto, Anima, anthropology, character, differentiation, ego- unconscious, Freud, inferior function, Jung, Levy-Bruhl, morality, myths, participation mystique, persona, polarity, primitive culture, projection, rituals, shadow, unconscious
October 4, 2011
The ego asks why anyone in his or her right mind should actually allow the troublesome aspects of his or her personality to be expressed. Jung’s answer is “for the development of character.” . . . For Jung, the inferior function is thus not just a trouble-maker extraordinaire, it is a moral exigency as well.
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Angelina Bennet
04 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Angelina Bennet, Briggs, collective unconscious, creativity, enneagram, extraverted intuition (Ne), Feeling, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), Jung, Myers, persona, projection, psychodynamic coaching, Sensation, shadow, thinking, transcendent function, type dynamics
March 1, 2011
Some people can be over-identified with the persona and experience inauthenticity. This identification with the persona can be due to habituation, social pressures, influences from childhood, defensiveness or anything that has given the individual a message indicating that the character of the persona is a preferable way to be.
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