We suffer more in imagination than we do in reality, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said. For all the talk out there about how sensation types and intuitive types differ, I think they both struggle equally with suffering in imagination. By…
I love the term "centroversion," which I discovered when reading Steve Myers' book: Another associate of Jung, Erich Neumann, describes this new attitude as the personality embarking on a third direction, which is neither extraversion nor introversion but 'centroversion.' This…
An important way that Jungian typology differs from Myers-Briggs is that Jung believed that personality types aren't static: In Jungian individuation, type can change - for example, 'the function-type is subject to all manner of changes in the course of…
Jung said that "if you identify with [a type] you identify with a corpse." That sounds harsh, but Jung believed readers missed the point of his book Psychological Types, which admittedly is a difficult book to read. His book was…
John Beebe's function stack of the personality type works like a cast of characters in a play, rather than in a rigid numerical order. In most type systems the four functions are typically in a hierarchy, with your most dominant…