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
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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
By Ryan Smith “Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing.” – Plato: Seventh Letter §344c When we last left the question of Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine, we had seen that Plato had been confronted with the Third Man Argument during the late part of his career. We had also seen that[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith With regards to Nietzsche’s aesthetics, you probably already know his opposition between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, as featured in The Birth of Tragedy. (Jung examines this same opposition in Psychological Types, identifying the Dionysian with inferior Se, bound up with tertiary Feeling [§235], while the Apollonian is “a state of introspection[…] Continue Reading