The Stages of Life: The Inferior Type and the Soul
The inferior function is the door through which all the figures of the unconscious come into consciousness. Our conscious realm is like a room with four doors, and it is the fourth door by which the shadow, the animus or the anima, and the personification of the Self come in – M.L. von Franz Jungian analyst, […]
The Stages of Life: Midlife
Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious – C. G. Jung In this series of articles Jungian analyst Vanessa Prins is looking at lifelong development and how an awareness of the types can help navigate what Jung called the “stages of life.” Having […]
The Stages of Life: Work
In one man it is the capacity for thought, in another feeling, which is particularly amenable to development, and therefore impelled by cultural demands, he will concern himself in special degree with developing an aptitude to which he is already favourably disposed by nature. – C. G. Jung In this series of article, we have been […]
The Stages of Life: Communication
Wherever an impassioned, almost magical, relationship exists between the sexes, it is invariably a question of a projected soul-image. – C. G. Jung This article, by Jungian analysts Vanessa Prins, is part of a series of articles addressing various stages of life. She is currently focusing on adulthood. In the last article, she addressed the subject […]
The Stages of Life: Marriage
Wherever an impassioned, almost magical, relationship exists between the sexes, it is invariably a question of a projected soul-image. — C. G. Jung The last two articles concerned the development of children and adolescents. In the next few articles Jungian analyst Vanessa Prins, will look at various aspects of the adult experience, starting today with […]
The Stages Of Life: Adolescence
. . . two children of the same mother may exhibit contrary attitudes at an early age, though no change in the mother’s attitude can be demonstrated. Although nothing would induce me to underrate the incalculable importance of parental influence, this familiar experience compels me to conclude that the decisive factor must be looked for […]
The Stages Of Life: Childhood
Ultimately it must be the individual disposition which decides whether the child belongs to this or that type despite the constancy of external conditions . . . Under abnormal conditions, (i.e. when mother’s attitude is extreme), a similar attitude can be forced on the child too, thus violating their individual disposition. — C. G. Jung […]
The Stages of Life
. . . beneath the neglected functions there lie hidden far higher individual values which, though of small importance for the collective life, are of the greatest value for the individual life, and are therefore vital values that can endow the life of the individual with an intensity and a beauty he will vainly seek […]
Extraverted Thinking: The Constructive Gifts
In its essence this thinking is no less fruitful and creative than introverted thinking, it merely serves other ends. — C. G. Jung Extraverted thinking is markedly different from introverted thinking, considered in the last article. Introverted thinking is highly conceptual, seeking to clarify an emerging idea. Extraverted thinking is in the world dealing with […]
Introverted Thinking: The Conceptual Gifts
The thinking of the introverted type is positive and synthetic in developing ideas which approximate more and more to the eternal validity of the primordial images. — C. G. Jung In the last article, we looked at the rational function “feeling” in its introverted mode. With this article, we turn to the other rational function […]