John Beebe
44 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, attitude, child archetype, complex, complexity, consciousness, Extraversion, Feeling, historical, Introversion, John Beebe, parent archetype, parent–child relationships, psychoanalytic, Psychological Types, Sabina Spielrein, shadow functions, thinking, Tom Kirsch
December 28, 2021

Complicated conversations occur when different types of consciousness meet other kinds of consciousness, which both befriend and oppose them. You need some way of making sense of “what are the regular territories within this mad conversation?” That is what Jung achieved in Psychological Types: a flexible-enough model to cover all the collisions of consciousness that can arise.
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Carol Shumate
44 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Big Five, Carol Shumate, cognitivism, Costa and McCrae, critical psychology, Daniel Wegner, deduction, empiricism, FFM, Five Factor Model, free trait theory, idiographic, induction, intersubjectivity, ironic process theory, John Locke, Klaus Holzkamp, MBTI, mental functions, Neuroticism, nomothetic, Peter Higgs, positivism, postmodernism, psychometrics, Richard Owen, sensationalism, subjectivity, Thomas Kuhn, traits
December 28, 2021

Academic personality research likes to consider trait psychology to be the scientific revolution that overtook and replaced Jung’s type psychology. However, it may be more accurate to view type and trait models as complementary because the conceptual divide has been shifting, and many trends in academic personality research now reflect the fundamental principles of Jung’s type system.
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The modern emphasis on self-awareness seems to have taken our psychological development about as far as it can for now; further progress requires the pendulum to swing towards attending to our interrelatedness, toward Self-awareness. The two most active and influential sociopolitical worldviews of our time, conservatism and progressivism, are both demonstrably collective in orientation.
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