Vicky Jo Varner
17 / Archetypes
Tags: A Trip to the Moon, Anima, Animus, archetype, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, Eros, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Georges Méliès, Good Parent, Hero, Hugo, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, John Beebe, Logos, Martin Scorsese, Ne, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puer Aeternus, Se, Te, Ti, Trickster, Vicky Jo Varner, Witch
November 5, 2013

“Everything has a purpose, clocks tell you the time, trains take you to places. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ”
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Doris Fuellgrabe
14 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: coaching, culture shock, Doris Fuellgrabe, ENTJ, expat, expatriate, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fi, Germany, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, Korea, Ni, Se, Si, Te
April 10, 2013

While Anna’s direct communication style seems natural to a German or someone with STJ/NTJ preferences, in Korea it would offend. The Korean communication style is indirect and high context; the message is often communicated through other means than the actual word. Body language, tone of voice, hierarchical position, meeting location, personal history …
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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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Douglass J. Wilde
10 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary, dominant, Douglass J. Wilde, extraverted sensing, Feeling, INTJ, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, Intuition, MBTI, Ni, preference clarity index, Se, Sensing, thinking, Ti, type dynamics
May 2, 2012

I describe here how I discovered a new way to find the function-attitudes—the ‘building blocks’ of personality type—associated with any set of MBTI® results. I discovered this method almost by accident. My goal was to form teams of graduate design students working together to conceive, build, demonstrate, and report on a physical project.
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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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John Beebe
06 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetypal, archetype, auxiliary, Buddha, caretaking, Daimon, dominant, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Feeling, General George Patton, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, Intuition, ISTJ, Japan, John Beebe, Kyoto, Nara, Ne, Ni, Obama, Puella, Puer Aeternus, Se, Senex, Si, superior, Te, tertiary, thinking, Ti, Trickster, typology
July 5, 2011

… A wise employee will come to understand the culture of the company … and recognize that the team has long since developed a certain way of taking care of others. The team uses its auxiliary function, not yours, or the one your tertiary Child expects it to use. You cannot expect an organization to take care of you in the way that you want …
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Lisa Schuetz
05 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Ania Teillard, Bismarck, ENFP, ESFJ, ESFP, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Gordon Allport, Graphology, Handwriting, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, ISTJ, Lisa Schuetz, Ne, Ni, Se, Si, Te, Ti
May 2, 2011

The blank piece of paper symbolically represents our universe. How we put writing on the paper—how the pen moves across the paper—represents how we see ourselves fitting into life and how we navigate through it. Extraversion is characterized by a tendency toward expansion. There is an emphasis on centrifugal movement (movement away from the body).
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John Beebe
05 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, auxiliary, dominant, Doris Day, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Frank Sinatra, George Patton, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling, introverted sensation, ISTJ, John Beebe, Ne, Puella, Puer, San Francisco Giants, Se, Si, Te, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Tim Lincecum, UConn, University of Connecticut
May 2, 2011

You can assert yourself … with an introverted function. You can take care of others … with an introverted function. You’re just not likely to do both these things with an introverted function, any more than one would do both with an extraverted function; our alternation of attitudes between the dominant and auxiliary takes care of that.
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Polly Young-Eisendrath
02 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Extraversion, functions, Introversion, meditation, mindfulness, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Se, transcendent function
November 15, 2010

. . . how do we get a “spaciousness” in our own responses so that we can experience our feelings, our thoughts, our motivations without acting on them directly—but without denying them either. This is not a matter of suppressing, dissociating, trying to override one’s negative experience; it’s not a matter of controlling; it’s not a matter of pushing anything aside. It’s a matter of being able to watch what is going on in our own experience . . .
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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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