Jesse Gerroir is contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Gerroir’s piece represents his own insights and type assessments and not necessarily those of the site. Still, we very much enjoy his work and are pleased to be able to share it with our visitors. By Jesse Gerroir Fe is often[…] Continue Reading
Category: Psychology
By Jesse Gerroir Within the field of Jungian typology, Feeling and emotion are often thought to be same thing. While the best literature is careful not to confuse the two, I find that a lot of beginners, and even those more read, tend to be confused about what exactly is meant by Feeling within the[…] Continue Reading
Antoine Panaioti: Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy Cambridge University Press, 2013 Review by Ryan Smith “I could become the Buddha of Europe … though frankly, I would be the antipode of the Indian Buddha.” – Nietzsche Inquiries aiming to compare Buddhism to Nietzsche’s thought have for some time abounded on the fringes of the academic landscape,[…] Continue Reading
We recently received an email suggesting that Bill Clinton is ENFP, rather than ESFP. Our correspondent submitted the following arguments to us: The ESFP was called “the Performer” by Myers, and ESFPs often play the clown. Clinton has a stellar academic record and is very intelligent. Clinton cares about the world, and such global consideration[…] Continue Reading
“With Aristotle … a new cultural type was born, a model of the wise man different from that of his predecessors, and especially different from the sages.” – Carlo Natali: Aristotle: His Life and School, Princeton University Press 2013 ed., p. 2 By Ryan Smith To our knowledge, we were the first to assess Aristotle[…] Continue Reading
“Plato had written in The Republic of four kinds of character which clearly corresponded with the four temperaments.” – David Keirsey, Please Understand Me II, Prometheus 1998 ed., p. 23 In Please Understand Me II, David Keirsey posits that Plato had four personality types in his Republic, each corresponding to a ‘temperament’: Artisans (SP), Guardians[…] Continue Reading
Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology, writing primarily about Jung. There is one of Shamdasani’s claims that we must disagree with, and that is that Shamdasani appears to think that Jung didn’t care for Plato. In his 2006 book, C.G. Jung – A Biography in Books, Shamdasani writes that: “Henri Bergson once noted that to[…] Continue Reading
Articles attempting to link Jungian typology to aesthetic preferences have always been popular, but unfortunately many of them are of poor quality, along the lines of “ISTPs like Bloodhound Gang and ESFJs like roses and rainbows.” With the help of a prior study by Joan Evans, D.Litt., we will nevertheless attempt to give an outline[…] Continue Reading
Articles attempting to link Jungian typology to aesthetic preferences have always been popular, but unfortunately many of them are of poor quality, along the lines of “ISTPs like Bloodhound Gang and ESFJs like roses and rainbows.” With the help of a prior study by Joan Evans, D.Litt., we will nevertheless attempt to give an outline[…] Continue Reading
Continued from Why Freud is ISTJ, Part 1. Written by the CT Admins in reply to the comment by AndrahilAdrian here. We are glad to see some elaboration for the argument that Freud is INTJ. It is clear that AndrahilAdrian has a very strong intuition that Freud is INTJ, and as we said, we used[…] Continue Reading