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Archetype and character : power, Eros, spirit, and matter personality types

By: Material type: TextTextNew York Palgrave Macmillan c2012Description: xxiv, 264p.; ill.; bibliog. refs.; bibliog.; appendices; indexContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
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  • 978-0-230-36401-1
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Foreword - Murray Stein. 1 Introduction: typology. 2 The archetypes of power, eros, pneuma and physis. 3 Power, eros, pneuma and physis personality types. 4 Soulful and spirited temperaments. 5 Temperament and theory: Freud, Adler and Jung. 6 Sigmund Freud: introverted spirited power physis type. 7 Alfred Adler: extraverted soulful physis eros type. 8 C.G. Jung: introverted soulful power pneuma type: Part 1. 9 C.G. Jung: introverted soulful power pneuma type: Part 2. 10 Conclusion. Appendix 1: Jungian archetypal typologies. Appendix 2: Primacy of spirit in the I Ching. Addendum: Archetypal-motivational typology scale
Abstract: '...introduces a new typology founded on unconscious motivations. It relies on C.G. Jung's description of the unconscious as composed of a personal and an archetypal layer. The book describes four archetypes, Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter as the principle motivations that define human attitudes and behaviour. This archetypal-motivational typology is contrasted with Jung's and its popular version, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator....'
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Foreword by Murray Stein.

Foreword - Murray Stein. 1 Introduction: typology. 2 The archetypes of power, eros, pneuma and physis. 3 Power, eros, pneuma and physis personality types. 4 Soulful and spirited temperaments. 5 Temperament and theory: Freud, Adler and Jung. 6 Sigmund Freud: introverted spirited power physis type. 7 Alfred Adler: extraverted soulful physis eros type. 8 C.G. Jung: introverted soulful power pneuma type: Part 1. 9 C.G. Jung: introverted soulful power pneuma type: Part 2. 10 Conclusion. Appendix 1: Jungian archetypal typologies. Appendix 2: Primacy of spirit in the I Ching. Addendum: Archetypal-motivational typology scale

'...introduces a new typology founded on unconscious motivations. It relies on C.G. Jung's description of the unconscious as composed of a personal and an archetypal layer. The book describes four archetypes, Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter as the principle motivations that define human attitudes and behaviour. This archetypal-motivational typology is contrasted with Jung's and its popular version, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator....'

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