christinel
20 Dec 2005, 04:12 AM
I wonder what everyone thinks about the psychological type descriptions on this page:
http://www.innerexplorations.com/catpsy/t1c1.htm
You have to scroll down almost halfway before you can actually read about the individual types. I don't think the author of this site is a Jungian psychologist, but the type descriptions here seem quite similar to Jung's, except much more simplified and easier to understand. When people have trouble understanding what Jung says about the psychological types, I sometimes direct them to this page.
Depending on how you read them, you may find that these descriptions are similar to Myers-Briggs or even Keirseyan type descriptions. Personally, I find them to be quite different, especially from Keirsey's. Like Jung's, these descriptions are purely about psychological *functions*. For instance, "feeling" is the process that evaluates whether something is good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, etc. So a "feeling type" here is simply a person who most habitually uses the feeling function, and subjects the other functions under the "domination" of feeling. The description of the feeling type is not attached to ideas about archetypal/social roles or complexes like "identity-seeker", "counsellor", "helper", etc. I think psychological function is more "basic" than all of that. A person can be, say, an Intuitive-Feeling function type *without* being an "identity-seeker", though the process of identity-seeking may often make use of the intuitive and feeling functions -- among other things. At least, that's how I understand Jung's model, anyway.
What I am especially wondering is -- which type description on this page most describes you, and which least describes you? And do the functions that *most* and *least* describe you match the functions that are dominant and least dominant according to your Myers-Briggs (and Keirseyan) four letter type code? Do people who have the Myers-Briggs/Keirsey INTP type code see themselves most in the Introverted Thinking type and least in the Extraverted Feeling type?
http://www.innerexplorations.com/catpsy/t1c1.htm
You have to scroll down almost halfway before you can actually read about the individual types. I don't think the author of this site is a Jungian psychologist, but the type descriptions here seem quite similar to Jung's, except much more simplified and easier to understand. When people have trouble understanding what Jung says about the psychological types, I sometimes direct them to this page.
Depending on how you read them, you may find that these descriptions are similar to Myers-Briggs or even Keirseyan type descriptions. Personally, I find them to be quite different, especially from Keirsey's. Like Jung's, these descriptions are purely about psychological *functions*. For instance, "feeling" is the process that evaluates whether something is good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, etc. So a "feeling type" here is simply a person who most habitually uses the feeling function, and subjects the other functions under the "domination" of feeling. The description of the feeling type is not attached to ideas about archetypal/social roles or complexes like "identity-seeker", "counsellor", "helper", etc. I think psychological function is more "basic" than all of that. A person can be, say, an Intuitive-Feeling function type *without* being an "identity-seeker", though the process of identity-seeking may often make use of the intuitive and feeling functions -- among other things. At least, that's how I understand Jung's model, anyway.
What I am especially wondering is -- which type description on this page most describes you, and which least describes you? And do the functions that *most* and *least* describe you match the functions that are dominant and least dominant according to your Myers-Briggs (and Keirseyan) four letter type code? Do people who have the Myers-Briggs/Keirsey INTP type code see themselves most in the Introverted Thinking type and least in the Extraverted Feeling type?