(1) ENTPs have Ne and ENFJs have Ni. So ENTPs tend to be more “all over the place” and do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and then something completely different. What they’re interested in is whatever is new and expands the borders of their present understanding, breaks it down, and[…] Continue Reading
Articles
Question from Emailer: I noticed the typing of Snowden as an INFP but he seems like a clear INTJ. He certainly has Fi and Te but above all he has Ni (not Ne). In this video interview he has a deeply held conviction that surveillance and oppression are wrong and never feels he needs to[…] Continue Reading
Q: How do I tell the difference between a shy and brooding ENTP and an INTP? A: This is a very good question. As the truism goes, the ENTP is the “most introverted extroverted type.” Also, if you look at our ENTP page, and especially the extended content, you’ll see that it’s crawling with ENTPs[…] Continue Reading
What follows is the text-only transcript from our video on Dana White. [QUOTING FROM EMAIL:] “Hi there, CelebrityTypes. Can you please explain why you think Dana White is Se and not Te dominant?” [CELEBRITYTYPES REPLY:] OK. Se is an extroverted perception function. It is about taking in as much of the external world as possible[…] Continue Reading
THE QUESTION I’ve been wondering lately about the effect an absent or abusive father figure would have on an IN type’s development? From what I’ve read, the growth of the auxiliary is stunted and the tertiary provides compensatory strength, along with some manifestation of shadow characteristics. The lacking parent makes differentiation difficult, so the tertiary[…] Continue Reading
1. Study Personality Broadly Personality is an unsolved puzzle, and Jungian typology is but a tiny piece of that puzzle. It says something about the arrangement of the four functions and their orientations. All sorts of other factors that pertain to the personality are, in effect, irrelevant to the system. Even if you know everything[…] Continue Reading
Sensation If you have studied Jungian typology to any extent, you have no doubt noticed that the field is marred by a bias in favor of the intuitive types. Sensation types are commonly denigrated and abused, and the argument is often advanced that “so-and-so can’t be an S type because he is smart/ ingenious/ academic,”[…] Continue Reading
(1): Expecting every scientist to be NT: “I have always found that people of mediocre knowledge of the world expected the most from systematic [typologies]. Men who know the world are the best [typologists] and expect the least from general rules.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799), quoted in Paul J. Stern: C.G. Jung[…] Continue Reading
In the book ‘Jung’s Four and Some Philosophers‘ the author Thomas M. King attempts to determine the Jungian types of a range of philosophers. King is no doubt competent with regards to philosophy and theology, but with regards to psychology, the problem with King’s book is that he freely indulges in the error of confusing[…] Continue Reading