#Jungian

[enbycrip]

[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — Roundabout (The Circle) [oil on canvas, 1989]

[divine-nonchalance]

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Carl Jung

[astrolocherry]

"Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; they enthral and overpower.....

They transmute our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evoke in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find a refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night."

Carl G Jung

[theoccultmentor]

People will do anything,

No matter how absurd,

To avoid facing their own souls

- Carl Jung

[fortunaestalta]

[shisasan]

Last night, I dreamt I was on a sinking boat in the ocean, everyone running to evacuate, only to wake up this morning to a tsunami emergency alert on my phone, sparked by the Taiwan earthquake, urging evacuation.

[bmtalbott]

So long as you feel the human contact, the atmosphere of mutual confidence, there is no danger; and even if you have to face the terrors of insanity, or the shadowy menace of suicide, there is still that area of human faith, that certainty of understanding and of being understood, no matter how black the night.

- Carl Jung, CW 17, Para 181

[clearpills]

[contentgreenearth]

BONUS TYPING IN PRACTICE #2: MICHAEL JACKSON-ENNEAGRAM AND AP/PY

As promised, for Black History Month, I was going to do bonus typings in practice on all the black people that I've typed in Classic Jungian and DISC (and in some cases, SOJT).

Michael Jackson was Typing In Practice post #3. I was able to type him in Classic Jungian and DISC, but not definitively in SOJT. His Classic Jungian was EN(F), and his DISC profile was I/C. These closely corresponded with the MBTI type ENFP.

Today, I am going to reveal how I typed Michael Jackson in Enneagram and AP/PY, and what his types are there, and why I decided on those types

ENNEAGRAM: 7w6 so/sp 714

I decided Michael Jackson was a 7 because his main focus, practically his whole adult life, was to run away from pain. He would use his creative genius to run away from the pain his chronic health conditions caused him, until the pain got so bad, then he used medicine to escape. And it was a medical assistant accidentally ODing him that led to his death. Now, the pain 7s try to escape is not always physical, as it was in Michael Jackson's case. It can also be emotional or mental. But escaping from pain is what distinguishes a 7 , nonetheless.

I decided on w6 for him because he was more about wanting and needing security and support than he was about not appearing vulnerable. However, at times, you could see his "I don't want to appear vulnerable " side poke through as well. But I think needing security and support was more prevelant in his life

I decided so/sp for the instincts, because Michael Jackson was all about being proper and polite, and doing the culturally acceptable thing. This shows he was social first, and I think he was self preservation second, because he would do what was necessary to escape his pain, which falls into 7's self maintenance.

Most people will say that Michael Jackson is a 794 tritype (The Gentle Spirit). Instead, I see him as 714 (The Visionary). The reason is, he certainly wasn't as active a idealist as a 794, nor as scattered as a 794. Instead, Michael Jackson had a focused idealism, and always completed his creative projects. Another clue to me of his 714 was him always wanting to do what was proper, polite and culturally correct. As well as indicating social first, I think it also indicates a 1 gut fix. Another big suggestion for 714 is that that triad is triple frustration. Michael Jackson's songs definitely seemed to come from a triple frustration point of view.

ATTITUDINAL PSYCHE : EVFL

1E: He emoted through his music, and nobody told him how. His music was how he wanted it to be, and no one else ever had a say. Michael Jackson's feelings were his and his only (self positive, others negative, result). Also, apparently, he was in a teacher/student relationship with Madonna (a 4E).

2V: This was quite an obvious aspect for Michael Jackson, as he loved involving others in his creative projects, and helping others achieve their dreams (self positive, others positive, process).

3F: This was also quite obvious in how things had to be "just so" for him in the physics aspect realm. He also had vitiligo, which gave him a negative outlook on his own physical being (self negative, others negative, process).

4L: Logic aspect things always seemed like an afterthought to him, after he got everything else out of the way. I can't actually think of any examples of him getting logic aspect advice from others, but nonetheless, logic appears to be his unbothered aspect (self negative, others positive , result)

As far as Psychosophy goes, unfortunately, he is not also a Pasternak type because his defense mechanisms don't follow the prescribed order (E-> V-> F-> L).

So now, after that analysis, I can say the following about Michael Jackson:

Classic Jungian: EN(F)

DISC: I/C

SOJT: unknown

Closest MBTI: ENFP

Enneagram: 7w6 so/sp 714

Tritype: 147 (The Visionary)

Attitudinal Psyche: EVFL

Psychosophy: no type

[noosphe-re]

Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, "If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them." It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He confronted me in an objective manner, and I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — "Jachin and Boaz" Two Pillars before the Temple of Solomon (oil on canvas, 1988)

[astrolocherry]

Archetypes Are Our Eternal Ancestors

[theoccultmentor]

Any energy that you deny becomes a demon for you.

It becomes your inner tormenter.

And you don't get rid of your demons. You embrace them.

- Adyashanti

[mswyrr]

this is the kind of revised idea of anima/animus that actually is neat to me--for analyzing stories and thinking about human psychology and symbolism-- whereas the views where your gender determines your relationship to these concepts are very alienating:

In his 1985 essay “Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion,” Hillman argued for decoupling the anima/animus from [gender]. He reconceived the anima as the archetype of psychic interiority, regardless of gender. The animus, in contrast, represented the archetype of external engagement with the world. For Hillman, contrasexuality was metaphorical, not literal. We all contain inner ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ qualities, but these have more to do with our preferred modes of being (e.g. action vs. reflection) [than our gender]. Hillman’s reformulation helped free the anima/animus concept from the prison of gender essentialism. It allowed for more nuanced, spectrum-based understandings of psychological femininity and masculinity.

[magdalene-spirit]

DREAMS