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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But I ask you, when do men fall on their brothers with mighty weapons and bloody acts? They do such if they do not know that their brother is themselves. . . . But whom do people kill? They kill the noble, the brave, the heroes. They take aim at these and do not know that with these they mean themselves. . .
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John Beebe
04 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary function, Buddhist, complexes, Dependent Origination, dominant function, ESFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), Good Parent archetype, Hero archetype, Hewlett-Packard, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), Isabel Briggs Myers, John Beebe, teams, The Wizard of Oz
March 1, 2011

We can oppose this image of the San Francisco Giants to the kind of team we see in some corporations where the different members of the team try so hard to maintain the same corporate persona . . . On such a team, nobody shows any individual peculiarities . . . and I’m sure that no real consciousness can emerge from behind such a mask.
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