The parent function is the auxiliary (second) function in your personality type. It is the function we use when "parenting" and encouraging others. It has a shadow side: the critical parent. The archetype John Beebe uses for this function is…
It can't be emphasized enough that Jung believed his psychological types should not be used to classify people. Instead the types were to be used for "sorting out the empirical material" that comes up during psychoanalysis. This helps a patient…
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…