Sheila Newsom
45 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, auxiliary, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, dysphoria, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, gender transition, Hero, identity, inferior function, INFJ, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, LGBTQIA, nigredo, Parent, Puer, Sheila Newsom, transgender, Trickster
April 19, 2022

The constant tension and accompanying fatigue in my waking life might be seen as the price I paid for the maintenance of a persona that had outlived its utility. The executioner lurking in the demonic position grew potent in the shadows, but the inferior function was rising. Energetically, a talisman was constellated, signifying a burning away of an inauthentic outer mask.
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39 / Archetypes
Tags: alchemy, Anima, Animus, dragon, ego, fairy tale, Hero, individuation, love, marriage, myth, nigredo, Rainer Maria Rilke, rubedo, Sam Allevato III, Self, shadow
October 16, 2019

The world of Rilke’s tale is one besieged by the Dragon. This is the world of the wasteland, where people are living inauthentic lives. In most fairy tales, a successful hero is the answer to the wasteland. Rilke, however, presents the tale not as a deliverance from the Dragon but rather as a slow descent into the shadowy realm of the Dragon.
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Zachary Kampf
38 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: 27 Club, Anima, anima-possession, Daimon, Dionysus, ego, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), forever 27, inferior, INFP, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Opposing Personality, punk, shadow, Zachary Kampf
July 3, 2019

The environmental wounds to Cobain’s natural INFP disposition left his ego vulnerable to an anima invasion. It was she who allowed the instinctual power of the unconscious, in both its creative and destructive properties, to flow through the inferior function and overrun his personality, attempting to restore order by instigating archetypal modes of adaptation.
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Zachary Kampf
34 / Archetypes
Tags: Alien, Anima, Bill Pullman, Daimonic, demonic, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, ego, extraterrestrial, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Glen Slater, Hero, Independence Day, individuation, inferior function, inflation, INTP, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jeff Goldblum, monsters, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puer, Starship Troopers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trickster, UFO, Will Smith, Zachary Kampf
April 4, 2018

The alien invasion can then be viewed as a necessary fragmentation of the psyche, occurring when the ego is too rigidly identified with the dominant function. The crisis brings renewal by breaking apart the ego identity so that the previously unrealized functions can be differentiated and integrated, thereby transforming the conscious attitude.
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Jennifer Degnan Smith
31 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Athens, auxiliary, Critical Parent, Demon, ESFP, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Greece, Greek, Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jennifer Degnan Smith, Opposing Personality, projection, Trickster, western civilization
July 6, 2017

Like the water that surrounds their country, the Greeks are very fluid and go with the flow. They are passionate and capable. However, their heroic use of extraverted sensing has contributed to the current economic crisis. The Greek hero must ease his extraverted sensing grip and use puer extraverted thinking energy to build analytical and efficient systems.
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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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Walter Smith
29 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, Demon/Daimon, evil, extraverted sensation (Se), inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISTJ, Satan, Trickster, Walter Smith
January 4, 2017

What is evil? We know it when we see it. Evil is subjective; it often depends on our point of view. For example, when the two women asked if they could tell me what I did wrong, I had a choice; I could either see their offer as helpful or “evil” in the sense that they were out to destroy my work. Can we utilize the power of psychological type to better understand what evil is?
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Marta Koonz
26 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, Astrid, dragon, ego, ESTP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gobber, Hero, Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Marta Koonz, Night Fury, Parent, persona, Self, Stoick, Toothless, Trickster
January 14, 2016

Just as Hiccup’s superior function, his Hero, has been wounded by his culture and his father, this dragon is wounded as well, a figure we will come to see as Hiccup’s inner truth. This is the story of an individual recognizing the wounding that has occurred, and claiming back his authentic power by developing his Heroic function.
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Susan Viglione
23 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Captain Kirk, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), individuation, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), J. J. Abrams, Opposing Personality, Senex, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Susan Viglione, Trickster, USS Enterprise, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kirk develops depth and integrity as he learns to harness the power of his dominant function and come to terms with the shadow parts of his personality. Ultimately, he is also able to cultivate his ego-dystonic functions and realize a more integrated and mature self capable of fulfilling his potential for charismatic and visionary leadership.
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Chris Beach
21 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Chris Beach, dream work, dreams, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), Parent, Senex, shadow, Trickster, Witch
October 1, 2014

If the dreamer is willing to work a dream from a psychological type perspective and the therapist has the knowledge to do so, then bringing type to dream work can be helpful. I utilize this approach either when I see an aspect of psychological type present or when I cannot make heads or tails of a dream by taking other approaches.
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Jennifer Soper
21 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality / The Red Book
Tags: active imagination, Ammonius, Anima, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, extraverted sensing (Se), Hero, individuation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Jennifer Soper, mandala, personal unconscious, The Red Book, the Red One
October 1, 2014

First comes the development of the Hero; next is the “fall,” which brings awareness that something is missing, leading to the rejection of the heroic inflation and the longing for more. Then comes the real “journey,” holding the tension between our highly conscious dominant/superior function and our much less conscious inferior function.
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Vicky Jo Varner
17 / Archetypes
Tags: A Trip to the Moon, Anima, Animus, archetype, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, Eros, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Georges Méliès, Good Parent, Hero, Hugo, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, John Beebe, Logos, Martin Scorsese, Ne, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puer Aeternus, Se, Te, Ti, Trickster, Vicky Jo Varner, Witch
November 5, 2013

“Everything has a purpose, clocks tell you the time, trains take you to places. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ”
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