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Getting Beyond ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’
I wonder if anyone describing Jung’s type theory for the first time has been able to avoid using the words inner and outer in trying to explain the difference between the introverted and extraverted...
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Dreaming The Dream On
Typology has to do with natural inclination meeting environmental forces. Earlier in my career as a Jungian analyst, I became interested in typology as a way of understanding a false self-adaptation to...
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Type and Exceptional Learners
For all our advances in education, our increased knowledge, and our superior educational assessment capabilities, something is still going wrong. As Jane Healy (1990) puts it, Our knowledge about how...
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The Archetypal Leader
As an introvert and a career soldier with over twenty years of military service, I have thought long and hard about how introverts contribute to the Army and the military’s organizational culture as a...
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Ambiversion: Ideal or Myth?
“Ambiversion”—the equal development of extraversion and introversion in an individual—has become a popular notion of late (Adam Grant, 2013; Daniel Pink, 2013) but it has led to some misinterpretations...
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Self-Alienation
In his essay “Aliens and Insects,” Jung scholar Glen Slater (2008) explored the genealogy and imaginative evolution of monsters in mythology and popular culture. He persuasively demonstrated that the...
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The “Forever 27” Tragedy
“I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. … I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix” (as cited in Cross, 2014, p. 34). These were the...
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Mine, Yours, and Ours
My relationship with my husband is the most interesting and compelling in my life. Sometimes I feel as if my marriage is the only relationship in my life. Being married is easily the hardest thing I...
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Evolution of Jungian Typology
Adam Frey: I want to ask you some big-picture questions about how the eight-function model fits into the history of the study of psychological type. I’ll start by asking about what Jung asserts in the...
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Philosophical Synchronicity
C. G. Jung (1926/1969) explicitly stated that he was “not … a philosopher, but an empiricist … inclined in all difficult questions to let experience decide” (¶ 604). Yet, while he downplayed his...
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