John Beebe
44 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, attitude, child archetype, complex, complexity, consciousness, Extraversion, Feeling, historical, Introversion, John Beebe, parent archetype, parent–child relationships, psychoanalytic, Psychological Types, Sabina Spielrein, shadow functions, thinking, Tom Kirsch
December 28, 2021

Complicated conversations occur when different types of consciousness meet other kinds of consciousness, which both befriend and oppose them. You need some way of making sense of “what are the regular territories within this mad conversation?” That is what Jung achieved in Psychological Types: a flexible-enough model to cover all the collisions of consciousness that can arise.
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Jane Shaw
29 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: craniosacral therapy, extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, inferior, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, Jane Shaw, Marie-Louise von Franz, Opposing Personality, thinking
January 4, 2017

My Feeling is definitely not a matter of determining whether simply I like or dislike something, as Hillman suggested an undifferentiated Feeling function might do. For example, I feel a hundred different aspects of a rose—smell, vibration, gentleness, tone, harmony, etc.—and all of these come into play when I evaluate its suitability for a certain spot in the garden.
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Marlowe Embree
27 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: atheism, aut-aut, auxiliary, C. S. Lewis, causes, Christianity, convergence, Daniel Kahneman, divergence, diversity, dominant, ecumenical, egalitarianism, et-et, Feeling, Intuition, Islam, Judaism, Leonardo De Chirico, Maimonides, Marlowe Embree, mysticism, pluralism, polarization, Pope Francis, Quran, rationalism, reasons, relativism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Ruth Benedict, science, Sensation, spirituality, theology, thinking, tolerance, triumphalism
April 6, 2016

People of different types are prone to think about religion and spirituality in different ways. While type obviously does not determine a person’s religious beliefs, type is a lens through which one views the world of religion and spirituality, and as a result, contentious religious differences are often, in part, typological differences in disguise.
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James Kennard
24 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: alchemy, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dionysian, extraverted sensation (Se), Faust, individuation, inferior function, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), James Kennard, Nietzsche, overman, personification, Puer Aeternus, Secret of the Golden Flower, Self, shadow, thinking, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Übermensch
July 1, 2015

Rather than truly being able to move down to embrace the inferior function, to achieve “integrity in depth,” Nietzsche tries to “overcome” the problem of the personality. His fantastic intuitions are not wholly thought through, and so he is not able to deal with the real task of individuation, which asks us to ground consciousness in the reality of body and mind.
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Robert McAlpine
11 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, auxiliary, C. G. Jung, Critical Parent, dominant, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitudes, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Isabel Myers, ISTJ, ISTP, John Beebe, MBTI, mental processes, Opposing Personality, preferences, Robert McAlpine, Sensing, tertiary, thinking
September 5, 2012

The type code had another unintended effect, which was to elevate the E-I and the J-P dichotomies to the same level as the functions. I had always thought of myself as an Introvert and nothing else. I had also been taught that I was a Judging type and I had been told that “J’s decide quickly,” but that was not true for me. So there were holes in my preference framework where my experience did not fit what I was taught.
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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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Lisa Schuetz
08 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Feeling, Freud, Graphology, Handwriting, id, INTJ, Introversion, Intuition, Jung, Lisa Schuetz, Sensing, thinking
December 1, 2011

The contrasts between the handwriting of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung show that they had very different temperaments and give credence to speculation that the difference in their personalities was an important factor in the final dissolution of their friendship. Freud’s writing is very complex and contradictory; Jung’s very simplified and balanced.
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Liana Lianov
07 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: behavior change, Brue, cognitive behavioral therapy, energy balance, ENFP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, fitness, health, health coach, healthy habits, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, Intuition, judging, Liana Lianov, lifestyle medicine, Ne, perceiving, positive psychology, Rollnick, Sensing, Si, stage of change theory, stress, thinking, Ti, trans-theoretical model, type
October 4, 2011

Type enthusiasts may wonder whether we can purposely apply our personality preferences—which are comfortable ‘tools’ to make habit change a little easier. Speaking as a lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a type enthusiast for the past two decades, I believe we can. . . . Type affects what motivates us and how we learn new skills . . .
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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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Angelina Bennet
04 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Angelina Bennet, Briggs, collective unconscious, creativity, enneagram, extraverted intuition (Ne), Feeling, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), Jung, Myers, persona, projection, psychodynamic coaching, Sensation, shadow, thinking, transcendent function, type dynamics
March 1, 2011

Some people can be over-identified with the persona and experience inauthenticity. This identification with the persona can be due to habituation, social pressures, influences from childhood, defensiveness or anything that has given the individual a message indicating that the character of the persona is a preferable way to be.
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Walter Smith
03 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Bernard Sartorius, Extraversion, Feeling, Fi, Introversion, Intuition, NF, schizoid, STJ, Temperament, thinking, Walter Smith, western civilization
January 5, 2011

The schizoid nature of western civilization gives credence to our emphasis on the necessity of using all of the functions (S, N, T, F), in both attitudes of Introversion (I) and Extraversion (E) . . . . When civilizations emphasize only one part of psychological type, they diminish themselves and set themselves up to see the world through distorted lenses.
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