Mark Hunziker
15 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Anima, Animus, archetype, attitude, auxiliary, conscious, Critical Parent, Demon, development, dominant, ego, egodystonic, egosyntonic, Eternal Child, extraverted thinking (Te), Father, function-attitude, Hero, Heroine, hierarchy, inferior, introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Hunziker, Mother, Opposing Personality, preference, Puella, Puer, Senex, shadow, tertiary, Trickster, unconscious, Witch
June 5, 2013

Our often-used shorthand illustration with a line drawn between the four allegedly conscious function-attitudes and the four “unconscious” ones is misleading because consciousness is not a sufficiently reliable characteristic for distinguishing these two sides of the psyche’s typology. It’s related to what distinguishes them, but only as a secondary and fairly unpredictable characteristic.
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Both articles in this issue discuss type distortion and the legacy of a prevailing cultural typology—one within a family and the other, on a national scale. Have you personally experienced or witnessed type falsification? What do you think caused it? Did your family, hometown, or nationality have a cultural type? How did this type legacy affect you and others?
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Shen Heyong, Yu Meng, Yin Fang
15 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: analytical psychology, Anima, China, Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), Garden of the Heart-Soul, I Ching, individuation, inferior function, inferiority complex, INFJ, integrity, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, John Beebe, Opposing Personality, shadow, Shen Heyong, Taoism, transcendent function, Yin Fang, Yu Meng
June 5, 2013

China has emphasized Se and Ne, leaving itself at present with a relatively weak Ni, even though Ni is China’s natural superior function and its historical birthright. A strong Ni, for example was the consciousness that gave birth to the three great Chinese religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, all of which anticipated Jung’s notion of the Self.
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