Extraverted Feeling in the Shadow II
“Often he is gauche in his behavior, painfully anxious to escape notice, or else remarkably unconcerned and childishly naive.” – C.G. Jung In the last article, we reviewed the more primitive attributes of extraverted feling as a shadow type. In this article, we will consider it as a shadow projection, and also in its […]
Extraverted Feeling in the Shadow
“Often he is gauche in his behavior, painfully anxious to escape notice, or else remarkably unconcerned and childishly naive.”– C.G. Jung We know much about the types as they normally function, but how they function as oppositional shadow types is not as well known or understood. A small study group (Gunilla Midbøe, Vanessa Prins, […]
The Shadow Types
“. . . beneath the neglected functions there lie hidden far higher individual values which . . . are of greatest value for individual life, and therefore vital values that can endow the life of the individual with an intensity and beauty he will vainly seek in his collective function.” — C.G. Jung With this […]
Recovering Forgotten Gifts
“When a function that should normally be conscious lapses into the unconscious, its specific energy passes into the unconscious too.” – C.G. Jung In the last three articles, we explored aspects of “falsification of type.” We learned that a “false type” is created by adapting to one’s social environment. It occurs when the authentic […]
Type Falsification: Costs and Benefits
I do not think it improbable, in view of one’s experience, that a reversal of type often proves exceedingly harmful to the physiological well-being of the organism, usually causing acute exhaustion. – C.G. Jung In the previous two articles on “falsification of type,” we noted some possible conscious and unconscious causes. We briefly discussed […]
Falsification and the Un-lived Life
“. . . he must, as is often the case with children, re-enact under unconscious compulsion the unlived lives of his parents.” – C.G. Jung With this article, Pedro Mendes continues his inquiry into type falsification, this time delving into the slippery and intriguing question of the parent’s unlived life and its unconscious effects on […]
Falsification of Type
“As a rule, whenever such a falsication of type takes place . . . the individual becomes neurotic later, and can be cured only by developing the attitude consonant with his nature” – C.G. Jung With this article, Pedro Guilherme das Neves Mendes reviews the important concept of type falsification. A psychologist and coach […]
The Stages of Life: Spirituality
“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself off, life calls not for perfection but for completeness; and for this the “thorn in the flesh” is needed, the suffering of defects without which there is no progress and no ascent” – C.G. Jung Jungian analyst, Vanessa Prins […]
The Stages of Life: Death and Advanced Age
We grant goal and purpose to the ascent of life, why not to the descent? The birth of a human being is pregnant with meaning, why not death? – C.G. Jung Jungian analyst, Vanessa Prins has been reviewing how type orientations relate to lifelong development. She has written about childhood, early adulthood and midlife. In […]
The Stages of Life: The Inferior Type and the Shadow
“Thus it is not to be a detachment or redemption of the inferior function, but an acknowledgement of it, a coming to terms with it, that unites the opposites on the path of nature” – C.G. Jung Jungian analyst, Vanessa Prins has been reviewing how type orientations relate to lifelong development. In the last […]