Articles documenting how C.G. Jung identified various people as more than one type are becoming something of a theme for us here at CelebrityTypes (Jung on Freud, Jung on Adler, Jung on his own type.) We don’t by any means blame Jung – we correct and update our own assessments quite incurably ourselves, and besides,[…] Continue Reading
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Jung identifies Adler as both introverted and extroverted. Keirsey & son identify Adler as NT. Freud identifies Adler as having Paranoid traits. Jung identifies Adler as having Schizophrenic traits. V.W. Odajnyk (author of ‘Archetype and Character‘) identifies Adler as ENFP* and as having Manic-Depressive traits. Walter Kaufmann (author of ‘Discovering the Mind’) identifies Adler as an[…] Continue Reading
In an earlier post we argued why the physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is ENFJ. And if you are into physicists that are in the habit of making science-popularizing performances, you may also be familiar with the British physicist Brian Cox, whom we estimate to be ENFP. These two men showcase how Extroverted Feeling (Fe) and[…] Continue Reading
James Graham Johnston Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types MSE Press 2011 An overlooked and unusual contribution to the study of Jungian typology was released in 2011 under the name of Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types. It was written by James Graham Johnston, who is apparently a Jungian before he is a typologist (rather than a[…] Continue Reading
Through our reading of the literature on Jungian typology, both online and offline, we have seen at least three popular actors in the field propose the idea that “Te is Deductive and Ti is Inductive.” Our argument is as follows: (1) Neither of those functions can be reduced to being merely deductive or inductive, but[…] Continue Reading
In 1941, 20 years after the publication of Psychological Types, Robert H. Loeb wrote a personal letter to Jung, postulating that if one were to make an analogy between the field of Psychology and the field of Physics, Freud would be like Newton and Jung would be like Einstein. To this comparison, Jung had the[…] Continue Reading
Jung identifies himself as both ISTP (early life) and INTP (later life). Myers identifies Jung as I-TP. Keirsey & son identify Jung as INFJ. Von Franz identifies Jung as both an N-domiant type (i.e. EN-P or IN-J) as well as a “Thinking-Intuition type with inferior Feeling,” – “the same type as herself,” i.e. INTP. Van[…] Continue Reading
Jung identifies Freud as both EST and INFP Myers identifies Freud as an extrovert. Keirsey & son identify Freud as ESTP. Von Franz identifies Freud as I-FP. Van der Hoop identifies Freud as ENTP. Freud identifies himself as having Compulsive and Histrionic traits. Theodore Millon (professor of psychology and creator of the MCMI personality assessment[…] Continue Reading
In the book ‘Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types‘, the author, James Graham Johnston, assesses the types of the people listed below. It should be noted that Johnston does not subscribe to the law of opposites as postulated by later theoreticians in the field. As such, his types are different and cannot be compared to the[…] Continue Reading
Jung’s Early Statement on Adler’s Type In Psychological Types (1921), Jung makes the following statements on Adler’s type: “Freud would like to ensure the undisturbed flow of instinct towards its object; Adler would like to break the baleful spell of the object in order to save the ego from suffocating in its own defensive armour.[…] Continue Reading