The Inferior Function - Extraverted Sensation vs Introverted Intuition

In the latest #JungianBitsofInformation podcast, I had a great chat with Sonia Ouertani-Starkey https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniaouertani/ 

Our friendship, in Jungian terms, is a psychological tension - I have a preference for Extraverted Sensing and Sonia has a preference for Introverted Intuition. According to analytical psychology, we hold the 'Inferior Function' for each other so I thought it would be interesting to explore our inferior functions through dialogue with each other. 

Sonia is a communication all-rounder and passionate with a fascination for Jungian psychology and themes like free will and destiny, paradoxes, complexity, dynamics between the individual and collective psyches, and transitions in transformation.

French and Tunisian, she lived a major shift when the 'Revolution' in Tunisia triggered her own. 10 years of professional circumambulation documenting her path and a semi burnout later, a second energetic shift resulted in 2021. She surrendered to the emergence of an internal agenda waiting for its time through a solo incubation and a tridimensionnel approach where personal, professional and academic are addressed as complementary and echoing each other. Catching up with a decade of collating ideas, diving deep within to face certain truths in an attempt to translate them into more linear terms, she started letting her guiding principles become her specialism, imprinting them in her overarching concept. She realised that she hadn't been chasing her dreams but rather they chased her as she was on her initiation path.

Now, Sonia is a researcher in progress and the founder of SOS FROM WITHIN Ltd /All•One Within, working to bring together the depth to the surface and at meta level in communications, along with the role comms could play to help organisations contribute to building deeper collective sense of harmony and unity.

A fascinating conversation with overtones of extraverted sensing and introverted intuition.