By Ryan Smith “[I] will assure to reason its lawful claims, and dismiss all groundless pretensions, not by despotic decrees, but in accordance with its own eternal and unalterable laws. This tribunal is no other than the critique of pure reason. … [I will critique] the faculty of reason in general … its extent, and its[…] Continue Reading
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By Ryan Smith “The true and positive meaning of the antinomies in Kant is this: That every actual thing involves a co-existence of opposed elements. Consequently to know, or in other words, to comprehend an object is equivalent to being conscious of it as a concrete unitary of opposed determinations.” – Hegel: Encyclopaedia of the[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith “No one can foresee in what guise the nucleus of truth contained in the theory of Empedocles will present itself to later understanding.” – Freud: Analysis Terminable and Interminable §6 Empedocles (ca. 490-430 BCE) is the earliest Western thinker to whom Freud ever referred.[1] Just as Heraclitus was Jung’s favorite pre-Socratic, so[…] Continue Reading
By Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D. It was intriguing to read about Pauli’s relationship with Jung and his ideas about using Jung in physics. I’m not sure it works very well, which of course is Pauli’s problem, not that of the admins. Yet I have some criticisms: When you say: “As long as nobody’s looking, observing,[…] Continue Reading
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