Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
41 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, coronavirus, Covid-19, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant function, dreams, ego, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Pan, Panacea, pandemic, Pandora, serpent, snake, Trickster, Zeus
September 16, 2020

Humanity is being summoned to change its perspective in an assortment of ways. When a pandemic wipes the calendar clean, the heroes are not the rich, successful, and scholarly; the heroes are those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy, the people who are risking their health to maintain normalcy during isolation and self-quarantining.
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Carol Shumate
19 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Carol Shumate, control, dominant function, Hero archetype, Hitler, inflation, megalomania, narcissism, paranoia, perfectionism, persona, power, self-esteem, social role, superior function
April 16, 2014

Some of the most difficult people to deal with are extraordinarily competent but refuse to share power or flex to consider other perspectives. Thus, they become obstructionists in contemporary society; and numerous studies of modern corporations have found “a disproportional number of narcissistic individuals [in] executive leadership positions.”
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Do you use your dominant function-attitude confidently? Heroically? Do you know when to trust it, even if no one else does? Many people grow up in families and/or cultures that don’t support their preferred ways of seeing the world and operating in it. So underdevelopment of our naturally preferred functions is probably a common type-development issue …
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the Editors, Mark & Carol
09 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: auxiliary function, Carol Shumate, dominant function, INFJ, INFP, INTJ, INTP, Introverts, Isabel Myers, ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, ISTP, Judging types, judgment, Mark Hunziker, Perceiving types, perception
February 1, 2012

Jung considered all of the types that the MBTI® code identifies as I—J to be Perceiving types, and all I—Ps to be Judging types, because his use of the terms focuses on the dominant. Myers, however, focused on the extraverted function. So, are I—Js really ‘organized, scheduled, and decisive’ and I—Ps ‘spontaneous, casual, and flexible?’
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John Beebe
04 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary function, Buddhist, complexes, Dependent Origination, dominant function, ESFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), Good Parent archetype, Hero archetype, Hewlett-Packard, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), Isabel Briggs Myers, John Beebe, teams, The Wizard of Oz
March 1, 2011

We can oppose this image of the San Francisco Giants to the kind of team we see in some corporations where the different members of the team try so hard to maintain the same corporate persona . . . On such a team, nobody shows any individual peculiarities . . . and I’m sure that no real consciousness can emerge from behind such a mask.
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