Definition
Metaformology is an integrative philosophy regrouping basic truths from various fields of study such as typology and the common Jungian archetypes.
Meta
The notion of integrative is related by the word ‘meta’ which itself comes from the Greek word meaning ‘beyond’ or more exactly ‘along with, after, between, among’.
< Gr meta, along with, after, between, among < IE *meta < base *me-, between > mid.
From Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
If you watch a reflection of yourself from across another mirror than the one in front of you then this is meta. If you can play a video game with a player other than yourself then the relationship is meta.
Form
The notion of type present in typology and archetypes is related by the word ‘form’ which comes from the Old French forme (noun), fo(u)rmer (verb, from Latin formare ‘to form’), both based on Latin forma ‘a mould or form’.
The word -form means ‘like, shaped, in the form of‘
-form
word-forming element meaning “-like, -shaped, in the form of,” from French -forme and directly from Latin -formis “-like, shaped,” from forma “form” (see form (n.)). Properly preceded by an -i-.
Online Etymology Dictionary © 2001-2022 Douglas Harper
Logy
The suffix -logy here as seen in dermatology, sexology means ‘science, theory or study of’.
-logy
word-forming element meaning “a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science,” from Greek -logia (often via French -logie or Medieval Latin -logia), from -log-, combining form of legein “to speak, tell;” thus, “the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);” from PIE root *leg- (1) “to collect, gather,” with derivatives meaning “to speak (to ‘pick out words’).” Often via Medieval Latin -logia, French -logie. In philology “love of learning; love of words or discourse,” apology, doxology, analogy, trilogy, etc., Greek logos “word, speech, statement, discourse” is directly concerned.
Online Etymology Dictionary © 2001-2022 Douglas Harper
Metaformology could also be said to be the study of and beyond the like, mould or form.
Typology
Jung Typology originated from the works of Carl Gustave Jung. Here is an excerpt of the very first introduction of the book Psychological Types that Carl Jung publish in 1921:
“In the following pages I shall attempt a general description of the types, and my first concern must be with the two general types I have termed introverted and extraverted. But, in addition, I shall also try to give a certain characterization of those special types whose particularity is due to the fact that his most differentiated function plays the principal role in an individual’s adaptation or orientation to life. The former I would term general attitude types, since they are distinguished by the direction of general interest or libido movement, while the latter I would call function-types.
The general-attitude types, as I have pointed out more than once, are differentiated by their particular attitude to the object. The introvert’s attitude to the object is an abstracting one; at bottom, he is always facing the problem of how libido can be withdrawn from the object, as though an attempted ascendancy on. the part of the object had to be continually frustrated. The extravert, on the contrary, maintains a positive relation to the object. To such an extent does he affirm its importance that his subjective attitude is continually being orientated by, and related to the object. An fond, the object can never have sufficient value; for him, therefore, its importance must always be paramount.”
Psychological Types, C. G. Jung (1921), Translation by H. Godwyn Baynes (1923)
