C.A. Meier was president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich where he succeeded Jung himself. In the book ‘Personality: The Individuation Process in the Light of C.G. Jung’s Typology,’ as well as in his book ‘Consciousness‘ Carl Alfred Meier offers the following typings to the reader. Meier’s typings are somewhat strange: He professes[…] Continue Reading
Category: Psychology
In the book ‘Jung: A Very Short Introduction’ by Anthony Stevens, the following typings are offered to the reader. In some cases, Stevens is following in the footsteps of Jung and von Franz, echoing their typings (Voltaire, Rilke, Nietzsche, Swedenborg, Mann) but in other cases, Stevens appears to be offering his own opinion (i.e. the[…] Continue Reading
“Christopher Hitchens was a dear friend [of mine] and a man who lived for the mind.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali On the face of it, many people seem to instantly recognize Hitchens’ preference for Se over Si. Some even take that Se to be auxiliary (ISP) or even dominant (ESP). Yet what we will posit[…] Continue Reading
The Case for INTP The BBC Interview, Face to Face, aired 1959, with transcript published in C.G. Jung Speaking, Princeton University Press, 1987: I most certainly was characterized by Thinking … and I had a great deal of Intuition, too. And I had a definite difficulty with Feeling. And my relation to reality was not[…] Continue Reading
Whether Sigmund Freud could have eased the hatred of Adolf Hitler in the years leading up to World War I, when they both were in Vienna, is a question that historians of psychology like to ask themselves, even though there is no clear answer: The young Hitler was obviously disturbed, but there is nothing to[…] Continue Reading
Basic Info on Introverts and Introversion Despite frequent insinuations to the contrary, even from Dr. Phil, introversion is not a disease, but rather a largely inborn way of relating to the world. It is estimated that as many as 40% of the population can be characterized as introverts, varying from very introverted individuals to “misguided”[…] Continue Reading
A classic joke from 1929 about the difference between French, German and English philosophy runs as follows: A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a German each undertook a study of the camel. The Frenchman went to the zoo, spent half an hour there, questioned the staff, threw bread to the camel, poked it with the front[…] Continue Reading
This post is not so much about Machiavelli’s psychology as it is about his philosophy. This post briefly argues that Machiavelli was a democrat, at least by the standards of his time, and that his foremost contributions to political philosophy was that he stressed conflict within states as something desirable as well as helping to[…] Continue Reading
In order to discuss Socrates‘ type, there are two things for us to mention before we can start: (1) Socrates never wrote anything himself. Thus, what we do have on him, we have from three sources: Aristophanes, Plato and Xenophon. The puzzle of piecing together a picture of the “true Socrates” from these sources is[…] Continue Reading
– By a friend of the CT admins – I’ve always been a staunch proponent of evidence-based knowledge and as such it is ironic that psychology has become one of my passions, as the discipline is a veritable minefield of flimsy “discoveries”. The essence of psychology is unscientific speculation which one then seeks to “prove”[…] Continue Reading