![]() Jung's answer is "for the development of character." This remark, less a warning than an evocation, is our motive for devoting special attention and a separate section to this strange part of Jung's typology. The ego asks why anyone in his or her right mind should actually allow the troublesome aspects of his or her personality to be expressed. ![]() Yet amidst all our trepidation, we would likewise be reminded by Jung that "it is necessary for the development of character that we should allow the other side, the inferior function, to find expression" (Ibid.). It is independent, it attacks, it fascinates, and so spins us about that we are no longer masters of ourselves and can no longer rightly distinguish between ourselves and others. The essence of the inferior function is autonomy. In the blink of an eye, the inferior function can go from a "what" to a "who," from you to your neighbor, from your neighbor back to you. In its most diabolical aspects, it tampers with and sabotages our relationships, turning friend into foe, or intrapsychically speaking, self into non-self. That is, the inferior function, along with its archetypal compatriot the shadow, can take on a kind of active and authoritative presence in our everyday lives. Perhaps what is most devastating to us, the inferior function acts in all these ways on its own. it challenges whatever we have accomplished, mocks our savvy, takes our daily bread tracks. The inferior function is our trouble-maker. It evokes from us a shudder, a sigh and a gasp. We have seen that the inferior function puts Jung's theory of types in its most dramatic guise. Spoto’s book can be ordered from Chiron Publications at. More than a linear biography, the film presents a fuller perspective on this humanist, healer, friend, and mentor, through the skillful interweaving of rare home movies, valuable archival footage, and a wealth of interviews with such notables as Sir Laurens van der Post, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Joseph Henderson, M.D.In this excerpt from his book Jung’s Typology in Perspective, Angelo Spoto argues that the inferior function places Jung’s theory of types in its most dramatic guise, and he suggests that the inferior function’s mecurical nature and autonomy is what is most devastating to us. Swamped by the knowledge of external objects, the subject of all knowledge has been temporarily eclipsed to the point of seeming nonexistence.Ī Matter of The Heart is a compelling portrait of Carl Gustav Jung, whose extraordinary genius and humanity reached far beyond the sometimes exclusive realm of psychiatry into redefining the essential nature of who we are and what we hope to become. It is in the highest degree odd that Western man, with but very few - and ever fewer - exceptions, apparently pays so little regard to this fact. The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the sine qua non of the world as an object. It examines Jung’s life and times, focusing on his ideas, particularly about the collective unconscious. A Matter of The Heart is a documentary about the famous Swiss psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, featuring archive footage of Jung as well as interviews with Jung’s former pupils, friends and colleagues.
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