Type Pathologies: Introverted Thinking

“The passage across is usually blocked by conscious resistance to any subjection of the ego to the realities of the unconscious and their determining power.” (CW 6, par 631)

Introversion and the Ascent of Humankind

“Psychologically, we have a right on purely empirical grounds to treat the contents of the unconscious as just as real as the things of the outside world, even though these two realities are mutually contradictory and appear to be entirely different in their natures.” (CW 6, par 279)

The Sound Inside

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“Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has always helped man to express the mystery of the soul.” (CW 14, par 488)

The Bifurcated Collective Unconscious

Do the meaning and value of the personality really lie only in what is permanent? May it not be that change, becoming, and development represent actually higher values than mere “defiance” of change? —C. G. Jung (CW 6, par. 157)

House Guests

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We get clues from the unconscious to further our “progress and ascent” toward a more complete and whole personality.

The Caterpillar, the Chrysalis and the Butterfly

Do the meaning and value of the personality really lie only in what is permanent? May it not be that change, becoming, and development represent actually higher values than mere “defiance” of change? —C. G. Jung (CW 6, par. 157)

Clues: Shadow Projections

Though people may start with clear orientations either inwardly or outwardly, or more directive than receptive, or more oriented to relationships than rational logic, with individuation, each of these orientations gains strength.

Personality: Whole and Unique

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Though people may start with clear orientations either inwardly or outwardly, or more directive than receptive, or more oriented to relationships than rational logic, with individuation, each of these orientations gains strength.

Personality and Consciousness II

In the previous letter, we noted that there are at least two types of awareness that lie outside Jung’s type model but may be considered attributes of the individual personality: 1. awareness of another’s personal presence 2. awareness of ego consciousness itself. In this letter, we will consider another mode of consciousness that provides clues to […]

Personality and Consciousness

In a previous letter, we noted that the body itself is not included among the modes of awareness portrayed in Jung’s model of psychological types. “Personality” is another. It too seems to lie outside the bounds of Jung’s model. Have you ever noticed that being in the physical presence of people, observing them, and listening […]