Make it Conscious What Growth Means for Your Type | The Power of Personality Type
Dec 9, 2025
Explore the intriguing connection between personality type and psychological growth. Discover the Shadow Map model that reveals the dual nature of the eight functions, highlighting their light and dark aspects. Learn about active imagination and its significance alongside shadow work. Delve into how embracing gifts, tempering power, and reconciling with your shadow can pave the way for personal development. Uncover practical tools for growth that integrate Jungian theory with actionable steps. It's a fascinating journey into self-discovery!
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Personality As A Functional Map
- Personality reduces to two core activities: receiving information and making decisions divided into four functions and eight attitudes.
- These eight functions form the basis for 16 distinct personality types and map a path for development.
Archetypes And A Dark Example
- Max uses archetypal names and symbols for the eight functions, like wands for intuition and swords for thinking.
- He illustrates that even dangerous figures can exemplify a function's form, citing Hitler as an example of a misused caregiver function.
Functions Have Light, Dark, And Antidote
- Every function has a light and dark side, an excess, an opposite, and an antidote leading to a middle truth.
- Growth requires engaging this tension and reconciling opposites to find integration.