Stephanie Marshall
45 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Demon/Daimon, double bind, dreams, egodystonic, egosyntonic, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, inferior function, INFJ, introverted feeling, introverted sensation, Parent, Stephanie Marshall, Trickster, Witch
April 19, 2022

I was in the grip of my own unconscious, projecting the shadows I was grappling with onto the work environment around me. I felt compulsively gripped by a desire to “fight the evil empire.” At my darkest point, I disregarded the fact that I did not have all the details and simply projected my personal beliefs and limited perceptions onto every decision made.
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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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Soha Al-Jurf
41 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Animus, archetypal father, Cassandra, Cronos, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, ego, ENFJ, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Hero, individuation, inferior, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, Mother, Saturn, shadow, Soha Al-Jurf, superior, voice, Witch
September 16, 2020

Cassandra represents the difficulty of expressing one’s own truth in a way that is persuasive and influential in the world, particularly a truth that is not androcentric. The weakening of the voice of the dream ego represents the suppression and repression of the feminine that results from continuing to rely on old ways of exerting influence.
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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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Teresa Nowak
33 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, archetypal ego, archetypal psychology, Beebe, collective unconscious, Demon/Daimon, dream imagery, dream interpretation, dream tending, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), guided imagery, Hero, images, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), James Hillman, Mother, Opposing Personality, personal unconscious, personality spine, Puella Aeterna, Stephen Aizenstat, Teresa Nowak, Trickster, Witch
January 10, 2018

“Interpretations” of dreams must be filtered through a layer of consciousness. One contribution of dream tending as an effective tool for Jungian dream work is the value it places on the sensing function as an imaginal way of knowing. Thus, it de-emphasizes the intuitive and thinking functions many Jungians use in traditional dream analysis and brings sensing and feeling to the fore.
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Lauren Morgan Wuest
23 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, Daimon, Demon, Eight-Function Model, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), Gravity, grief, Hank Williams, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Jr., Lauren Morgan Wuest, Marie-Louise von Franz, Puella Aeterna, shadow, Trickster, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kowalsky’s self-sacrifice can be seen as the Animus acting as “the door through which all the figures of the unconscious come into consciousness.” His extraverted feeling is giving Stone a much-needed lesson: She must stop holding on to a situation that is no longer life-giving. It is time to let go of her debilitating prison of pain—and of her former self—so she can move forward.
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Susan Viglione
23 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Captain Kirk, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), individuation, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), J. J. Abrams, Opposing Personality, Senex, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Susan Viglione, Trickster, USS Enterprise, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kirk develops depth and integrity as he learns to harness the power of his dominant function and come to terms with the shadow parts of his personality. Ultimately, he is also able to cultivate his ego-dystonic functions and realize a more integrated and mature self capable of fulfilling his potential for charismatic and visionary leadership.
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Chris Beach
21 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Chris Beach, dream work, dreams, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), Parent, Senex, shadow, Trickster, Witch
October 1, 2014

If the dreamer is willing to work a dream from a psychological type perspective and the therapist has the knowledge to do so, then bringing type to dream work can be helpful. I utilize this approach either when I see an aspect of psychological type present or when I cannot make heads or tails of a dream by taking other approaches.
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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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Mark Hunziker
15 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Anima, Animus, archetype, attitude, auxiliary, conscious, Critical Parent, Demon, development, dominant, ego, egodystonic, egosyntonic, Eternal Child, extraverted thinking (Te), Father, function-attitude, Hero, Heroine, hierarchy, inferior, introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Hunziker, Mother, Opposing Personality, preference, Puella, Puer, Senex, shadow, tertiary, Trickster, unconscious, Witch
June 5, 2013

Our often-used shorthand illustration with a line drawn between the four allegedly conscious function-attitudes and the four “unconscious” ones is misleading because consciousness is not a sufficiently reliable characteristic for distinguishing these two sides of the psyche’s typology. It’s related to what distinguishes them, but only as a secondary and fairly unpredictable characteristic.
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Maryann Barone-Chapman
13 / Archetypes / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Beebe, complex, demonic, dreams, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, Eight-Function Model, ENTP, Extraversion, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Father, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, inferior function, inferiority, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted intuiting, introverted thinking, ISTP, John Beebe, Maryann Barone-Chapman, Mother, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puella, Puer, Se, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Trickster, type falsification, Witch
January 8, 2013

In a dream she showed up as twins. One who was quiet and could play by herself (like her father, Ti) and the other who was very precocious as she hung upside down from a tree (like her mother, Te), reflecting the inherent nature of the Opposing Personality. From the outset of our work her battle seemed to reflect inferiority about not being an extravert.
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