{"id":18438,"date":"2023-01-27T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=18438"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:30:49","slug":"development-of-deficient-faculties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/development-of-deficient-faculties\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Of Deficient Faculties"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The harmonious development of our psychological functions is one of the primary goals of psychosynthesis counseling because deficient functions may cause many problems<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Diagram 1. Assagioli’s Star Diagram with seven psychological functions and the self<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n

By Roberto Assagioli<\/strong>, Course of Lectures on Psychosynthesis 1933, (Unrevised notes), from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. Original Title: Sviluppo delle Facolt\u00e0 Carenti<\/em>. Translated with Notes by Jan Kuniholm<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In our exposition on the practice of psychosynthesis so far we have talked about how to use the psychic energies that are existing and active in us. But to arrive at a harmonious psychosynthesis of our personality there is often another task to be done: that of actively developing the weak or deficient psychological functions. Without this we would remain one-sided and incomplete. Therefore, by sincere and dispassionate examination we must first clearly recognize which psychological elements and functions are weak and insufficient in us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But this is only the first step. The insufficiency of a psychological function in our personality may be due to two different causes, thus requiring different remedies. Such an insufficiency may first stem from a constitutional or original weakness, connected with the particular psychological type to which a person belongs. Thus, for example, one who belongs to the practical, concrete and positive type may almost entirely lack imagination, artistic sense, feeling or intuition. One who belongs to the emotional type may have basic intelligence but lack practical skills. One who is completely extroverted has no psychological understanding either of himself or of others. Those who are excessively introverted do not know how to create vital and harmonious relationships with the outside world and with other people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But the inadequacy of a given aspect of the personality often depends on a different cause: that aspect may have been repressed in the unconscious, cut off from the normal personality, and thus has not been able to develop regularly, but has remained at an infantile and primitive state. Here we are talking about quality, and not quantity or intensity. The repressed aspect may in fact be quantitatively very strong, indeed exuberant, but it is in its raw state, so to speak.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Today we will examine the first type of deficiency: those due to constitutional weakness. The methods of remedying such weakness are different, depending on the nature of the faculty to be developed. For faculties of the cognitive and active type, the method is simple and direct: systematic training and psychological calisthenics<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Just as by methodical and constant exercise one can strengthen muscles and acquire amazing physical abilities in various sports, or the superior abilities of the violinist or singer, so by suitable exercises one can develop various psychological gifts to a very high degree. Let us begin with the most basic, but also among the most useful and necessary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n