The Imposter Syndrome and the ‘As-If’ Personality: Illusions in the Mirror
Two-Hour Online Seminar: March 16, 2024 The ‘as-if’ person faces a conundrum: hide or expose the truth of who they are. Feelings of loss, limitation and curtailment, alienation, and obsolescence are prevalent yet concealed with glitzy persona/imposter images. Intimacy and being emotionally present are difficult. The imposter and ‘as-if’ personalities withdraw into phantasy. They live […]
Introverted Feeling in the Shadow II
Barbara Miller “It is an outstanding peculiarity of unconscious impulses that, when deprived of energy by lack of conscious recognition, they take on a destructive character, and this happens as soon as they cease to be compensatory” – C.G. Jung In the last letter, we reviewed the primitive attributes of introverted feeling as a shadow […]
Introverted Feeling in the Shadow
Barbara Miller “These preexisting mental images into contact with which the stream of our personal experience comes, I call the subjective factor” – 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. This article on introverted feeling […]
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: 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 […]