The "opposing personality" is an archetype created by Jungian psychologist John Beebe, M.D. This function is opposite the Hero (superior) function in your personality type. Beebe describes it in the language of character pathology as "oppositional, paranoid, passive-aggressive, and avoidant."…
The feeling function is the function in the personality that sorts out our feelings. But where do these feelings come from? As Jungian analyst James Hollis says in his book Living Between Worlds, we do not create feelings. He says…
The hero is he who is immovably centered - Ralph Waldo Emerson All of us know what a hero is and, without much effort, can think of individuals we consider heroes and are able to identify hero figures in literature…
If you want to see what it looks and feels like at a visceral level when extroverted feeling makes an entrance, the last five minutes of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech is a dramatic example. According to…
Thinking is a rational, judging function and on the opposite pole of feeling. It organizes experiences and ideas and tends to be intellectual, analytical and impersonal. The thinking function has no necessary connection with intelligence or the quality of thought,…