Her videos are great. She’s so sultry! Her ego video is new to me today, but she basically summed up many of last year’s lessons of mine and covered all the bases. Ego is more than building up personal significance through pride, but also false modesty and tearing others down.

“An “F” ego will focus on their own characteristics as an ethical p…Read more

@Elisa Day - what you said is very interesting, I didn't know.

From what I understood, CT says that :

• the first function is almost always conscious (except for unusual situations - I'm not sure what this means);
• any other functions can also be developed and become conscious.

I don't really know how this works, what you have to do to develop…Read more

One more thought on this....In the sense that ego means something like "the overarching story I tell myself about who I am," I feel like my ego is more like a pattern of relationships to all four of my different functions (or perhaps even to all eight that are floating around in collective consciousness) rather than a fixation on only one of them.…Read more

@bera I think my main beef is with the terms “conscious” and “valued” and how they are being used here, but I think I may have it straightened out. Jung says our dominant function is always conscious and our inferior cannot become conscious.

Socionics says our first and second functions are valued, conscious, and represent our ego which is how…Read more

Mankind has been programmed with what Jung would call the transcendent function which allows us to bring parts of our unconscious into consciousness. So far, from what I understand about AI, Deep Learning has this ability to begin the individuation process and transcend. Unlike mankind, however, it cannot yet complete the process and individuate.…Read more