The Tyrant in Your Type Code

The Tyrant in Your Type Code:

Making Peace with the Inferior Function

Carol Shumate, Ph.D.. Presenter
Adjunct Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Thursday, April 23, 2015

6:00 to 6:45 pm Potluck Dinner and Networking

(Bring a dish to share, beverages provided)

6:45 to 9:00 pm Program

Binkley Baptist Church 

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You know the scenario: You are confident and in control, and then out of the blue someone points out a big hole in your presentation, or published report, or tax return. Often, that ‘hole’ was left by your inferior function. Marie-Louise von Franz said it’s like the idiot in the fairy tale, our most primitive and uncontrollable function. On the good side, although the idiot bumbles through life, he somehow arrives at wisdom. The real question is:

How do we access its wisdom without shooting ourselves in the foot?

Our inferior function is like the old joke about the opposite sex: You can’t live with it but you can’t live without it. The inferior function can be a tyrant. The bonus is that, in learning to deal with this tyrannical aspect of our own ego, we also learn to avoid being tyrannized by others.

Through the use of film clips and interactive activities participants will learn:

• Which function to watch out for in ourselves and others
• Which function to use to approach our own or another’s inferior function
• What NOT to do when someone is having a crisis (Hint: Don’t use the language of their inferior function!)

The Tyrant in Your Type Code

Guests $25.00 USDMembers $10.00 USD

  Carol Shumate, Ph.D.

  Co-Editor, Personality Type in Depth

  Adjunct Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute

 

Carol teaches the only graduate level course in the country on psychological types, at Pacifica Graduate Institute of Analytical Psychology, Santa Barbara, California. Below are some comments from her students:

ENTP: “I’d bet I’d speak for all of us saying that you are one amazing teacher.”

INFJ: “I want you to know that from the very beginning of your course I have felt enthralled, energized and inspired.”

INFJ: “I have found a new inner peace and confidence that is truly transforming my daily life. Learning of the other functions, as well as my own inferior function, has also been life-changing.”

ENFJ: “[This] material has helped me understand myself better: what triggers my insecurity, why I react to situations the way I do, what are my greatest gifts and strengths, how I show up in a group and what particular perspective and energy I bring to it.”

March 1st, 2015