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This essay, “The Psychological Aesthetics of INTJ,” won 1st prize in the CelebrityTypes essay contest. The views and type assessments expressed in this essay represent the opinions of its author and not the editorial point of view of the site. Readers should also remember that “type portraits” can never apply to all members of a[…] Continue Reading

This essay, “Jung’s Basic Categories of the Functions,” won 2nd prize in the CelebrityTypes essay contest. The views and type assessments expressed in this essay represent the opinions of its author and not the editorial point of view of the site. By Michael Pierce In Psychological Types, Jung described the functions Thinking and Feeling as[…] Continue Reading

This essay, “Ni, Si, and Self-Delusion,” won 3rd prize in the CelebrityTypes essay contest. The views and type assessments expressed in this essay represent the opinions of its author and not the editorial point of view of the site. By Christian Vieweg In Jungian typology, Introverted Sensation (Si) and Introverted Intuition (Ni) represent the two[…] Continue Reading

Some additional notes on our prior discussion of Bill Gates’ type are in order. In terms of behaviorism and trait theory there is a strong case to be made for Bill Gates as a low scorer on the extroversion scale. People watch interviews with Bill Gates, pick up on his behaviorally introverted mannerisms and then[…] Continue Reading

By Eva Gregersen “[Fi types] reveal a delightful repose, a sympathetic parallelism, which has no desire to affect others, either to impress, influence, or change them in any way.“ – C.G. Jung: Psychological Types, Harcourt & Brace 1923 ed., p. 492 In Psychological Types, Jung describes Fi as a “sympathetic parallelism.” Quite a stunning, if[…] Continue Reading

By Sigurd Arild CelebrityTypes.com has now been online for almost five years. What have we learned? Here are some of the insights that came to us through studying Jungian sources. 1: Jungian Extroversion and Introversion Being an extrovert or introvert in the Jungian system is not the same as being extroverted or introverted in behavioristic[…] Continue Reading

This article is a companion to the article on Nietzsche’s Aesthetics of Night. While this article can be read on its own, we recommend that you read the article on Nietzsche before proceeding with this one. By Ryan Smith In my article on Nietzsche’s Aesthetics of Night I reached back to Nietzche’s early aesthetics, from[…] Continue Reading

By Sigurd Arild and Ryan Smith A lot of myths about Jung and Psychological Types are flying around in the type community, both offline and online. Most prominently, Jung is often held out by people with a superficial knowledge of typology as having written Psychological Types on the basis of his clinical experience with patients[…] Continue Reading

Interview by Ryan Smith Today we have something out of the ordinary for our readers: an interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and has taught at multiple universities, including Columbia and Rutgers. She has received numerous awards for her[…] Continue Reading