Marie-Louise von Franz (1915 – 1998) was a Jungian psychologist and close associate of Jung. In her book, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, von Franz lays out some general principles of Jungian typology as she sees them, which we reiterate below. All quotations are from the Inner City Books 1998 edition of the book. 1: As[…] Continue Reading
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By Boye Akinwande, with additions by Eva Gregersen As I’m sure may currently be the case for many of you, I was quite skeptical of CelebrityTypes’ type assessment of Kanye West as an ISFJ when I first came across it. At the time of this writing, there appears to be no “default” assessment of West’s type,[…] Continue Reading
Torben Mark Pedersen is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Pedersen’s piece represents his own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site. By Torben Mark Pedersen, Ph.D. David Hume was arguably the greatest thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment. According to Hume, society is not “planned from[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith In this installment, I intend to discuss the Fi/Te axis as it appears in Homeric psychology. My discussion will be conducted on the basis of A.W.H. Adkins’s exposition of the Homeric mindset, as it appears in his book From the Many to the One.[1] I will first attempt a general outline of[…] Continue Reading
Shawn Daniels is a Ph.D. of classical studies and contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Daniels’ piece represents his own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site. By Shawn Daniels, Ph.D. Among the pre-Socratic philosophers, Heraclitus is amongst the most famous, if not the most famous.[…] Continue Reading
By Eva Gregersen The notion of defense mechanisms is central to the field of psychodynamic theory as a whole. Their discovery is widely credited to Freud and seen as among his most important discoveries (although as others have noted, Nietzsche really beat Freud to many of these realizations). In this overview, I list 15 different defense mechanisms and offer examples[…] Continue Reading
“… many are the afflictions that burst in and blunt their thinking. In their lives, they see a meagre portion of life … trusting only in whatever each has encountered as he was driven here and there, yet he falsely claims to have discovered the whole. … Mortal minds have no more power than this.”[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith In preparation for our own piece on why Jung is INFJ, we will recap some of the previous discussions of his type. This article will review the assessments offered in major books and articles between 2000 and 2012. Ann Casement (2001): Carl Gustav Jung …This article requires site membership. If you are already[…] Continue Reading
Boye Akinwande is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes and Ryan Smith is one of the admins of CelebrityTypes. In this article, Akinwande and Smith elaborate on the duality of type-triads, both across, as well as along, the function axes. By Boye Akinwande and Ryan Smith In this article we are going to elaborate on the[…] Continue Reading
“We love our country-men, our neighbours, those of the same trade, profession, and even name with ourselves. Every one of these relations … gives a title to a share of our affection.” – David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, II.II.IV “We give our obedience to those whom we put in positions of authority, and[…] Continue Reading