(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
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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
When we opened CelebrityTypes in 2009, the standard online typing of Goethe was INFJ, whereas we thought him more of an ENFJ. Later still, we started digging into Jung, only to discover that he and his partner Hans Schmid-Guisan would consider Goethe more of an Fe type. We will detail Jung’s claims on Goethe below.[…] Continue Reading
Here at the site we are engaged in a very special kind of research, which could perhaps be called psycho-biography, i.e. trying to find some unity between a person’s cognition and a person’s life. The genre is by no means a new one, but what distinguishes it is that there is so much bad material[…] Continue Reading
Since many of our visitors are having a hard time accepting that many of their favorite artists might be S types, we will now provide a Jungian argument for why that might that may be the case. We do not personally agree with Jung on this point, but we have not seen the point elaborated[…] Continue Reading
A young boy was raised on Disney. Just a few DVDs ago, the boy had no qualifications in life, but he already feels like Disney has taught him everything he needs to know. “What a great friend I have in Disney!” the boy thinks to himself as he skips down the street with a spring[…] Continue Reading
Written by Ric Velasquez – edited by the CT Admins for publication, and used with permission When it comes to determining the types of musicians, one ubiquitous problem seems to be that people don’t separate the musician as a person from the music that that person has created. But if you want your typings to hold[…] Continue Reading
In the article below, an acquaintance of ours attempts to explain the basics of oppositional function pairs. Gerroir contributes with his personal understanding of the system. We at CelebrityTypes do not necessarily agree with Gerroir on every point, but we found his article an insightful read and will now share it with you. Written by[…] Continue Reading
Articles documenting how C.G. Jung identified various people as more than one type are becoming something of a theme for us here at CelebrityTypes (Jung on Freud, Jung on Adler, Jung on his own type.) We don’t by any means blame Jung – we correct and update our own assessments quite incurably ourselves, and besides,[…] Continue Reading
Jung identifies Adler as both introverted and extroverted. Keirsey & son identify Adler as NT. Freud identifies Adler as having Paranoid traits. Jung identifies Adler as having Schizophrenic traits. V.W. Odajnyk (author of ‘Archetype and Character‘) identifies Adler as ENFP* and as having Manic-Depressive traits. Walter Kaufmann (author of ‘Discovering the Mind’) identifies Adler as an[…] Continue Reading