Vicky Jo Varner
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: chaos, coaching, Conques, COVID, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), mandala, pandemic, tympanum, Vicky Jo Varner, Wheel of Type, Z-model of decision making
April 25, 2021

We harken back to the Conques tympanum’s division of cosmos and chaos as Jung thereby affirmed the value in engaging with all four functions so as to address our human challenges and set matters in order. Just as Christ was the arbiter of human souls on the Conques tympanum, we may engage our inner self to negotiate the chaos within our own 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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Suzanne Cremen
42 / Archetypes
Tags: Aphrodite, Ariadne, Dionysus, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), goddess, inferior function, INFJ, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), madness, mythology, sexuality, shadow, superior function, Suzanne Cremen, Theseus, virgin, Witch
December 16, 2020

Many women, and not least women with dominant Ni, intuitively know that their spirituality, their creativity, and their sexuality arise from the same source. The priestess may be found in all walks of life; she is the woman who mediates between matter and spirit, between the human and divine realms, who “will always honor sexual energy as a link to the source of life itself.”
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Tarrin McDonald
40 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, auxiliary, body, depression, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), God, Grizzly Adams, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISTJ, King James Bible, parent archetype, Puella Aeterna, religion, surrender, Tarrin McDonald, Trickster, vision, Wile E. Coyote
March 19, 2020

The beauty, of course, comes with surrender. When we surrender to the gifts of the inferior function, allowing it to walk beside us hand in hand rather than dragging it behind us like some burdensome weight, consciousness shifts, a new view opens before us, and the world becomes a different place because we have allowed ourselves to become different in its presence.
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Ellen MacGran
40 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, Animus, conflict, dreams, Ellen MacGran, ENTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Trickster, Witch
March 19, 2020

When I first learned about typology in the mid 1990s, I set out to conquer the inferior function. After all, I wanted to develop in every way possible, and surely that meant quashing anything inferior! More recently, however, I have come to appreciate the power of this gremlin to draw me closer to the middle realm of dreams and imagination, where wisdom rises from the depths.
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Tamara Walker
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: A. Minghella, Animus, Cave of Swimmers, Daimon, Demon, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Heroine, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), László Almásy, Michael Ondaatje, mirrors, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puella, S. Zaentz, Senex, Tamara Walker, The English Patient, Trickster, Witch
July 3, 2019

The more I fell apart inside, the more I needed outside structure and order. One night I dreamed of an interior colorless and noiseless explosion that was followed by a voice that boomed, “You have the courage to let your interior world be chaos; there are no walls where there should be walls. You are a crab, and you need an exoskeleton.”
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Mark Ransom
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypal, balance, demon/daemon, dialogue, ENFP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Ransom, Self, soul, The Mostest, vocation
January 22, 2019

The dynamics of creative process and psychological wellbeing are such that creative artists are often overcome by the demonic. From Nietzsche’s Zarathustra to Curt Cobain’s Nirvana, there is an artistic star swallowed by the unconscious every week. But the arts can also be a type of savior—a place for us to process our darkness and not become it.
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Shirl Terrell
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: addiction, Animus, auxiliary function, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, midlife, opioids, paranoia, parent archetype, possession, puer/puella aeternus, schizophrenia, Shirl Terrell, Trickster
January 22, 2019

My sister’s life illustrates the impact of a lack of positive parental guidance on the development of personality and what happens if the inner parent fails to develop. Family tragedy deprived Christin of a compass with which to navigate psychic turbulence during midlife. While few people succumb to such crises, many lack the tenacity to face them.
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Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018

Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Elizabeth Leuenberger
35 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: America, anger, anima/animus, culture, Elizabeth Leuenberger, ENTP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), John Giannini, marriage, Switzerland, Trickster
July 11, 2018

Individuation calls us to fight the dragon head-on. The struggles of relationship—whether with another person or within a culture—are opportunities. We can flee and seek a quick-fix, taking what my husband calls “tequila shot” flights to numb the discomfort until the next situation arises. Or we can remain within the oyster shell and endure the uncomfortable rubbing.
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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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Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, conscious competence ladder, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018

To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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