Kevin Kell
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, adolescence, auxiliary function, ENFP, ESTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hestia, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, John Beebe, Kevin Kell, Lenore Thomson, one-sidedness, panic attacks, phobias, power complex, tension of opposites, transcendent function
April 25, 2021

Many clients enter treatment because their psyche is “failing” to accommodate itself to their one-sided will. They are cut off from the self-regulating functions of their unconscious and the resulting symptoms have induced so much suffering that they are forced to stop their plans, enter therapy, and work through the blockage. The power complex wants a better hold on the psyche.
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Vanessa Jankowski
42 / Archetypes
Tags: adolescence, archetypes, Beebe’s eight-function model, childhood, competition, Demonic/ Daimonic, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation (Se), Hestia, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Kevin Dubrow, numinous, religion, teaching, Vanessa Jankowski
December 16, 2020

Much of the depth psychology literature has been written by and for intuitive types and introverted types, which means that those with an extraverted sensing (Se) preference are a rarity in the field. This in turn perpetuates a subtle bias against extraverted sensation. Yet, contrary to popular opinion, sensing types do have access to the archetypal realm.
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Bernard Neville
01 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollonian, archetype, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Bernard Neville, Demeter, Dionysian, Dionysos, Eros, Fe, Fi, greek gods, Hades, Hephaistos, Hera, Heracles, Herakles, Hermes, Hero, Hestia, mental processes, Ne, Ni, organizational development, Prometheus, Se, Si, Te, Ti, Trickster, Zeus
October 8, 2010

Organizational behavior, even more than individual, is shaped by myth and unconscious dynamics, rather than by rationality. I have noticed parallels between Jung’s observations of personality type and the gods who were at the centre of the classical Greeks’ understanding of motivation and behavior. The Greek pantheon can provide ways of talking about a wide range of value systems, energies, feeling states, behavior habits . . .
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