THE QUESTION I’ve been wondering lately about the effect an absent or abusive father figure would have on an IN type’s development? From what I’ve read, the growth of the auxiliary is stunted and the tertiary provides compensatory strength, along with some manifestation of shadow characteristics. The lacking parent makes differentiation difficult, so the tertiary[…] Continue Reading
Year: 2013
1. Study Personality Broadly Personality is an unsolved puzzle, and Jungian typology is but a tiny piece of that puzzle. It says something about the arrangement of the four functions and their orientations. All sorts of other factors that pertain to the personality are, in effect, irrelevant to the system. Even if you know everything[…] Continue Reading
Sensation If you have studied Jungian typology to any extent, you have no doubt noticed that the field is marred by a bias in favor of the intuitive types. Sensation types are commonly denigrated and abused, and the argument is often advanced that “so-and-so can’t be an S type because he is smart/ ingenious/ academic,”[…] Continue Reading
(1): Expecting every scientist to be NT: “I have always found that people of mediocre knowledge of the world expected the most from systematic [typologies]. Men who know the world are the best [typologists] and expect the least from general rules.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799), quoted in Paul J. Stern: C.G. Jung[…] Continue Reading
In the book ‘Jung’s Four and Some Philosophers‘ the author Thomas M. King attempts to determine the Jungian types of a range of philosophers. King is no doubt competent with regards to philosophy and theology, but with regards to psychology, the problem with King’s book is that he freely indulges in the error of confusing[…] Continue Reading
When we opened CelebrityTypes in 2009, the standard online typing of Goethe was INFJ, whereas we thought him more of an ENFJ. Later still, we started digging into Jung, only to discover that he and his partner Hans Schmid-Guisan would consider Goethe more of an Fe type. We will detail Jung’s claims on Goethe below.[…] Continue Reading
Here at the site we are engaged in a very special kind of research, which could perhaps be called psycho-biography, i.e. trying to find some unity between a person’s cognition and a person’s life. The genre is by no means a new one, but what distinguishes it is that there is so much bad material[…] Continue Reading
Since many of our visitors are having a hard time accepting that many of their favorite artists might be S types, we will now provide a Jungian argument for why that might that may be the case. We do not personally agree with Jung on this point, but we have not seen the point elaborated[…] Continue Reading
A young boy was raised on Disney. Just a few DVDs ago, the boy had no qualifications in life, but he already feels like Disney has taught him everything he needs to know. “What a great friend I have in Disney!” the boy thinks to himself as he skips down the street with a spring[…] Continue Reading