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Saturday December 10, 2022 • 9:00 a.m. - noon PST
(11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST, noon to 3 p.m. EST)
Type as a Defense Against Narcissism
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With typology, Jung gave us an important defense against narcissism. Psychological projection is the central tool of narcissism: it enables one to be entirely sincere and yet utterly duplicitous.
However, the psychological cost is severe: It causes an ever-increasing blindness to the one thing we cannot do without—the self. Narcissists project their unwanted thoughts and qualities onto others, unaware that in doing so they are giving away their own power.
To the extent that we can recognize our own narcissism, we can recognize and defend ourselves against narcissism in others—and regain our own power.
With reference to some of the Jungian functions, this workshop will look at how to recognize narcissism, how narcissists seduce us, and how to handle a narcissist.
This presentation is geared to Beginning and Intermediate levels of type knowledge.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Carol Shumate, PhD, has taught the course on psychological type at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 2013, when she co-taught it with analyst John Beebe. Her book Projection and Personality Development via the Eight-Function Model (Routledge 2021) uses Beebe’s eight-function/eight-archetype model to illuminate the unconscious aspects of psychological type. Carol launched the journal Personality Type in Depth in 2010, and in 2020 helped launch the Depth Typology Center, created to archive scholarly resources at the interface of depth psychology and psychological type. She has spent most of her career in higher education, writing, teaching, and delivering curricula that convey complex concepts in simple ways. Carol has ENFP preferences.