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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It is no small matter to acknowledge one’s yearning. For this many need to make a particular effort at honesty. All too many do not want to know where their yearning is, because it would seem to them impossible or too distressing. And yet yearning is the way of life. If you do not acknowledge your yearning, then you do not follow yourself …
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Lisa Schuetz
08 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Feeling, Freud, Graphology, Handwriting, id, INTJ, Introversion, Intuition, Jung, Lisa Schuetz, Sensing, thinking
December 1, 2011

The contrasts between the handwriting of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung show that they had very different temperaments and give credence to speculation that the difference in their personalities was an important factor in the final dissolution of their friendship. Freud’s writing is very complex and contradictory; Jung’s very simplified and balanced.
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