Jung and MBTI

[leora]

So I am slowly reading Current Psychotherapies by Corsini and finding it quite interesting. I am reading the bit about Jung right now and his typology. As those of you who find the MBTI interesting know, the MBTI is based on Jung's types

Comments

[akiko]

That definition of extrovert applies very well to me.

[ukelele]

I never much cared for the energy definition, chiefly because it is obviously a poor fit for me ;). (Though it applies to nonnihil shockingly well, and may also apply to V.) I see where this definition is going, and I like the "focus of energy" more than "source of energy" flavor, although I still feel it's a bit lacking. (For one, it borders awfully close to "introverts are divorced from reality"...)

[dpolicar]

(nods) I have strong aspects of both, and I tend to fall on the I/E cusp on MBTA inventories, but fall on the I side on balance, which tends to surprise people. And yeah, this business of treating internal states as having primacy over external ones is a big part of it.

I dated a woman for several years who was very much the opposite of this, and I used to entertain myself by contrasting our memories of mostly-forgotten events or places we'd been. I'd be like "Yeah, I remember... the weather was intermittent that weekend; I don't recall exactly what it was, but it kept being pleasant and then unexpectedly turning bad and then surprisingly being beautiful again, it was a bit of an emotional whiplash effect" and she'd look at me funny and say "Yeah, it was a hurricane" or something.

By and large I find it easier to just say I have a bad memory; people don't normally have the patience to put up with descriptions built around things we don't have dedicated words for.