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In Psychological Types §540, Jung says of Hegel: As forerunners of Nietzsche’s intuitive approach I would mention Schopenhauer and Hegel, the former because his intuitive feelings had such a decisive influence on his thinking, the latter because of the intuitive ideas that underlie his whole system. In both cases, however, intuition was subordinated to intellect,[…] Continue Reading

Can Custer really be an Si type? Is he not rather a man characterized by extroverted sensation (Se) and thus an ES-P type as his popular image would seem to suggest? When we started doing research, a penchant for Se was indeed what we expected to find. And while ideally, the best practice when dealing[…] Continue Reading

As if the epistemological status of Jungian typology were not already compromised enough by the prevalence of people who type by face reading, stock characters, and handwriting analysis, a further problem that mars the field is the circulation of unfounded rumors about celebrities self-identifying as certain types or taking personality tests and coming out as[…] Continue Reading

When Jung first put forth his theory of the types, Jungian typology became the state of the art of its day. Since then, other schools of personality studies have emerged, and now modern science seems to be converging on the idea of the trait theory and the Big Five personality traits. As such, with regards[…] Continue Reading

Short answer: No. Just like face reading and stock characters, the notion that handwriting analysis can be linked to type is spreading like wildfire in type training organizations and on the internet. In this post we will explain why we think graphology is completely lacking in validity and why it should not be used in[…] Continue Reading

In 1919, just prior to the publication of Psychological Types, Jung sent a letter to Sabina Spielrein detailing the psychological types of the following people: Eugen Bleuler: E-TJ type Freud: Extrovert Nietzsche: Introvert Jung: Introvert Goethe: EN-P Schiller: IN-J Sabina Spielrein: Extrovert Jung on Schiller: Both IN-J and INTP? Update Februrary 2013: As suggested by[…] Continue Reading

Carl Gustav Jung & Hans Schmid-Guisan The Question of Psychological Types Princeton University Press 2013 It has long been known that some years prior to the publication of Psychological Types, Jung carried on a correspondence with his colleague and former analysand, Hans Schmid-Guisan, dealing exactly with the question of psychological types. Already around the time[…] Continue Reading

In ‘The Question of Psychological Types‘, Jung’s collaborator Hans Schmid-Guisan offers a basic schema of how the therapist should adapt himself to the patient. Schmid-Guisan provides the basic stances, to which we add our further thoughts. Patient  is: Therapist should act: Extroverted, not adapted to outside reality Introverted, to overbid the patient’s turning away from[…] Continue Reading

In ‘The Question of Psychological Types‘, Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan crafted early version of Jung’s later typology. In this manner, one may say that Jung and Schmid-Guisan both were the authors of this early typology, which we will call the Jung-Schmid-Guisan Typology (JSGT) for short. In this early version, extroversion is always identified with Feeling[…] Continue Reading