When I lived in Massachusetts 30 years ago, I found myself drawn to books about Robert F. Kennedy, because I was fascinated with the transformation he made after his brother was assassinated. He went from being a bully who went…
It's pretty much a given that personality tests aren't consistently reliable. Yet figuring your type out on your own isn't so easy either. When Jung created the psychological types, he didn't use a test. He and the first generation Jungian…
It's refreshing to take a break from modern forms of personality types for a bit, with their pesky cognitive functions and whatnot, and look at things from the perspective of ancient philosophies. With Pooh thrown in for good measure, of…
Carl Jung had a circular view of the personality, as you can see from his drawing below of the four functions as a compass: That's because Taoism strongly influenced the development of Jung's typology. The Chinese concept of the Tao…
As with all the cognitive functions. extroverted intuition (Ne), plays one of eight different roles in the personality depending on which of the 16 personality types you have. This is per Jungian analyst John Beebe’s 8 function personality type model.…