Rebecca Kilicaslan
45 / Archetypes
Tags: auxiliary, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, Donald Kalsched, dreams, ENFP, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, inferior function, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, Opposing Personality, protector/persecutor, Rebecca Kilicaslan, Trickster
April 19, 2022

Suppression of my intuitive function has appeared symptomatically in the loss of my voice, both in dreams and while performing as a vocalist. On a broader level, my voicelessness has materialized in interpersonal difficulties, such as a hesitancy to advocate for my own perspective, impostor syndrome, and a distrust in my instincts and intuitions.
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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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Carol Shumate
18 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Adler, Carol Shumate, Freud, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, John Beebe, John Giannini, Jung, Jungians, observer effect, Sonu Shamdasani
February 5, 2014

A separation exists between psychology and typology. Many psychologists and even many Jungians ignore Jung’s major work, Psychological Types, and the concepts underlying it. The field has been left mostly to lay practitioners, who use the MBTI® instrument for training, coaching, and other pragmatic applications. What reasons do you see for the divide?
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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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Doris Fuellgrabe
14 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: coaching, culture shock, Doris Fuellgrabe, ENTJ, expat, expatriate, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fi, Germany, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, Korea, Ni, Se, Si, Te
April 10, 2013

While Anna’s direct communication style seems natural to a German or someone with STJ/NTJ preferences, in Korea it would offend. The Korean communication style is indirect and high context; the message is often communicated through other means than the actual word. Body language, tone of voice, hierarchical position, meeting location, personal history …
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Cheryl L. Simon, Ph.D.
14 / Archetypes
Tags: Cheryl Simon, Eight-Function Model, Eternal Child (Puer/Puella), extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, Fe, Good Parent, INFJ, Introverted Intuition, James Hillman, Ni, synchronicity, Te, Teilhard de Chardin, Trickster, Witch/Senex
April 10, 2013

I realized that, as symbolized by the water, there are life energies or archetypes which serve the universal purpose of potentially keeping us alive and on our path in service to the Self. These energies reside both within and without and are generally unconscious until we work to bring them to consciousness. …This is true even when we fall!
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Hanne Urhøj
13 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetype, Bob Dylan, complex, Divine Child, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, Father complex, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hanne Urhoj, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, I’m not there, John Beebe, Ni, Puer Aeternus, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Todd Haynes, Trickster
January 8, 2013

The portrait of Bob Dylan in the film “I’m not there” demonstrates how a lack of father-specific structure is compensated by a powerful and extraordinarily creative but volatile and defenseless Puer structure; and the movie further illustrates the tendency of the Shadow complexes to rise to repair such psychic vulnerabilities and restore equilibrium.
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Stephanie Puentes
10 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Cassandra, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Fe, Introverted Intuition, Latina, Ni, Stephanie Puentes
May 2, 2012

“What do you want?” asked one of the boys, his crossed arms over his chest authoritatively. “I want a drink of water,” I told him, but as I made a move to go around him, he stepped in front of me again. Before I could say anything or react in any way, he told me, “You can’t drink here. This fountain is for people. No monkeys allowed.”
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Douglass J. Wilde
10 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary, dominant, Douglass J. Wilde, extraverted sensing, Feeling, INTJ, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, Intuition, MBTI, Ni, preference clarity index, Se, Sensing, thinking, Ti, type dynamics
May 2, 2012

I describe here how I discovered a new way to find the function-attitudes—the ‘building blocks’ of personality type—associated with any set of MBTI® results. I discovered this method almost by accident. My goal was to form teams of graduate design students working together to conceive, build, demonstrate, and report on a physical project.
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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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John Beebe
06 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetypal, archetype, auxiliary, Buddha, caretaking, Daimon, dominant, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Feeling, General George Patton, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, Intuition, ISTJ, Japan, John Beebe, Kyoto, Nara, Ne, Ni, Obama, Puella, Puer Aeternus, Se, Senex, Si, superior, Te, tertiary, thinking, Ti, Trickster, typology
July 5, 2011

… A wise employee will come to understand the culture of the company … and recognize that the team has long since developed a certain way of taking care of others. The team uses its auxiliary function, not yours, or the one your tertiary Child expects it to use. You cannot expect an organization to take care of you in the way that you want …
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Lisa Schuetz
05 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Ania Teillard, Bismarck, ENFP, ESFJ, ESFP, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Gordon Allport, Graphology, Handwriting, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, ISTJ, Lisa Schuetz, Ne, Ni, Se, Si, Te, Ti
May 2, 2011

The blank piece of paper symbolically represents our universe. How we put writing on the paper—how the pen moves across the paper—represents how we see ourselves fitting into life and how we navigate through it. Extraversion is characterized by a tendency toward expansion. There is an emphasis on centrifugal movement (movement away from the body).
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