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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Steve Myers
26 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: ambivalence, ambiversion, Axiom of Maria, caduceus, Carol Shumate, centroversion, collectivity, constructivism, differentiation, Erich Neumann, Freud, individuation, Isabel Briggs Myers, reductionism, Self, Steve Myers, transcendent function
January 14, 2016

Type as a problem needs to be rediscovered. Although from Jung’s point of view moderate one-sidedness does not usually cause major difficulties and is a stage of development to go through, ultimately being a type is a problem whereas contemporary type theory generally views it as a virtue. This has resulted in the transcendent function being overlooked.
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Shen Heyong, Yu Meng, Yin Fang
15 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: analytical psychology, Anima, China, Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), Garden of the Heart-Soul, I Ching, individuation, inferior function, inferiority complex, INFJ, integrity, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, John Beebe, Opposing Personality, shadow, Shen Heyong, Taoism, transcendent function, Yin Fang, Yu Meng
June 5, 2013

China has emphasized Se and Ne, leaving itself at present with a relatively weak Ni, even though Ni is China’s natural superior function and its historical birthright. A strong Ni, for example was the consciousness that gave birth to the three great Chinese religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, all of which anticipated Jung’s notion of the Self.
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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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Polly Young-Eisendrath
02 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Extraversion, functions, Introversion, meditation, mindfulness, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Se, transcendent function
November 15, 2010

. . . how do we get a “spaciousness” in our own responses so that we can experience our feelings, our thoughts, our motivations without acting on them directly—but without denying them either. This is not a matter of suppressing, dissociating, trying to override one’s negative experience; it’s not a matter of controlling; it’s not a matter of pushing anything aside. It’s a matter of being able to watch what is going on in our own experience . . .
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