Boye Akinwande is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes and Ryan Smith is one of the admins of CelebrityTypes. In this article, Akinwande and Smith elaborate on the concept of function axes and how to determine them, expanding on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series, as well as the article on the Background of the[…] Continue Reading
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“A formative voice sinks back into mind; mind sinks back into vital breath; vital breath to radiance; and radiance to the higher divinity. This is the soul; the Self of all that exists; this is the Real Self; You Are That…” – Chandogya Upanishad IV.8 “How transient are all component things! It is their nature[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith, Eva Gregersen, and Sigurd Arild Earlier in 2015 the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) hosted a seminar dedicated to Jungian typology. The following article is a short commentary on the two most substantial lectures given at that seminar, namely Ernst Falzeder’s Types of Truth: Jung’s Philosophical Roots and John Beebe’s Individuating the Types.[…] Continue Reading
By Eva Gregersen, Ryan Smith, and Sigurd Arild Since some criticisms have been leveled at our use of functions and the model we employ, some discussion of the use of functions may be in order. Criticisms of Functions and Function Models That Are Discussed in This Article: …This article requires site membership. If you are[…] Continue Reading
By Eva Gregersen In spite of the previous essays offered on this site, as well as the essays of Jung and von Franz, there are still people who argue that the inferior function is just like the other three functions, just less well-developed. However, as we have previously argued, such a conception is Aristotelian, not[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith and Eva Gregersen In 2012, we wrote a piece, Determining Function Axes, where we argued for an axial understanding of the cognitive functions. To some extent, this conception had always been part of Jungian typology, but as far as we know, the idea of function axes, and their ontological and epistemological implications,[…] Continue Reading
Jonathan C. Gold: Paving the Great Way Columbia University Press 2015 Review by Ryan Smith The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (ca. 350-450 CE) was a prominent contributor to numerous schools of Buddhist thought. As opposed to the majority of Buddhist thinkers, who acquaint themselves with one or two schools of Buddhism, Vasubandhu stands apart as a[…] Continue Reading
“[With Pythagoras] everything derives from a wisdom equally and undividedly committed to the sacred and the worldly, the rational and the religious – it is the wisdom of one whose knowledge ‘transcends’ that of the common man.” – Walter Burkert: Weisheit und Wissenschaft (Verlag Hans Carl 1962) p. 173 “[Pythagoras’] motive in acquiring power …[…] Continue Reading
Boye Akinwande is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. In this article, Akinwande explores the hidden merits and significance of Fi in an apologia for a function that has often been short-changed. By Boye Akinwande To many, the Introverted Feeling (Fi) function seems to be the hardest to understand because the values and sentiments that lie[…] Continue Reading
PREFACE TO THE ARTICLES ON GREEK LOVES The following article series on the Greek Loves has been crafted under the supreme influence of Irving Singer’s The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther (Random House 1966) and Gardner Fair’s An Introductory Guide through Plato’s Symposium (Molloy College 2000). I am immensely indebted to both of these[…] Continue Reading