Lisa A. Pounders
30 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Chocolat (film), culture, Daimonic, demonic, Eight-Function Model, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, John Beebe, Lasse Hallström, Lisa Pounders, Opposing Personality, Parent, shadow
April 5, 2017

“Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside whose people believed in tranquillité.” This opening indicates that the psychological orientation of the village is one of peace and calmness, agreeability and order, suggesting that the village has certain values through which it judges situations—in other words a feeling function is at work.
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John Beebe
30 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: aesthetic attitude, cultural attitudes, depth psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), John Beebe, Joseph Henderson, Jungian analysis, philosophical attitude, psychological attitude, psychotherapy, religious attitude, social attitude
April 5, 2017

Individuation is attractive as a therapeutic goal, but adaptation, even to a self that analytic work has brought into focus, can continue to be a challenge. I have come to feel that one of my jobs as a therapist is to help the person working with me develop an attitude that can negotiate culture comfortably— one adequate to bridge the gulf between irreducibly individual self and continuously demanding world.
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Elizabeth Martin
30 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: American culture, Anima, Beebe, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, Elizabeth Martin, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Opposing Personality, paradox, presidents, Senex, Texas, the Alamo, Trickster
April 5, 2017

With his unique thundering velvet hand approach, a Texan rarely says, “Shut up!” or “Don’t do that!” Instead, we hear, “Hush,” or “That would be ill-advised,” with a long drawl and a grin. The result is effective and charming, binding the man to his community. He easily compensates in robust, creative, and powerful ways to ensure full balance in his personality expression.
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