The tendency to be more influenced
by environmental influences.
Or more influenced by the subjected factor.
That's all.
And you see there are people
who are very well balanced.
And are just as much influenced from within as they are from without.
Or just as little.
On so, with all the... the defined classifications, you know...
They, they are only
umm... sort of
(french phrase) points for orientation.
My whole scheme of typology
is merely
a sort of orientation
Namely, there is such a factor as introversion
there is such a factor as extroversion.
The classification of individuals means nothing!
Nothing at all.
It is only...
umm
the intrumentarium
for the practical psychologies
to explain for instance a husband to a wife.
For instance,
it is very often the case.
Once could trust to almost say... it is almost a rule,
but I don't want to make too many rules
here, in order not to be schematic
that an introvert marries an extrovert
for compensation.
Or another type marries the counter type to...
to complement himself.
Well, Dr. Jung, of course tied into your typology and ...
We first know of your concepts of...
Thinking, Feeling
Sensation and Intuition.
Well there is quite a simple explanation of these terms
and it shows at the same time
how I arrived at such...
a... typology.
Namely,
Sensation tells you that there is something.
Thinking, roughly speaking, tells you what it is.
Feeling tells you whether it is agreeable or not.
... to be accepted or not... accepted or rejected.
and Intuition... now there is a difficulty
you don't know, ordinarily, how intuition works
So, when a man has a hunch, you can't tell exactly how he got at that hunch
or where that hunch comes from.
It is something funny about intuition.
Well, sometimes, you know, you can really find out how...
it works... by finding the intermediate links
you see, it is a perception
by... intermediate links
and you only get the result
of that whole chain of associations.
Sometimes you succeed in finding out,
but more often you don't.
So, my definition is, intuition is a perception
by ways or means of the unconscious.
That is as near as I can get.
This is a very important function
because when you live under primitive conditions
a lot of unpredictable things are likely to happen.
And.. there you need your intuition
because you cannot possible tell by your perceptions,
by your sense perceptions,
what is going to happen.
For example, more specifically, what would be an example or a difference between an intuitive extrovert
and an intuitive introvert
Well, you know, the... you have chosen... a some what difficult case, you know...
Because the one of the most difficult types is the intuitive introvert.
You know...
The intuitive extrovert you find them [all over]... renters, bankers, gamblers.
That is quite understandable,
but the introvert... introverted variety
is more difficulty because he has intuitions as
to the subjective factor, namely
The Inner World.
And of course that is now very difficult to understand.
Because what he sees are most
uncommon things and...
he doesn't like to talk of them... if he's not a fool...
because he would spoil his own game,
by telling what he sees...
because people won't understand it.
For instance, once I had a patient - a young woman about twenty-seven or eight
And her first words were when I had treated her
she said; "You know doctor I came to you because I have a snake in my abdomen"
I said what?
"yes a snake, a black snaked coiled up right in the bottom of my abdomen"
And I must have made a bewildered face
And she said "you know I don't mean it literally, but I should say it was a snake, it was a snake".
Now you see our further conversation a little later
was I should say
it was about in the middle of our treatment, only lasted for 10 consultations
yet she had foretold me
"I come ten times, and then it's all right"
I said how do you know?
"Oh I got a hunch  you see"
And really about the fifth or sixth hour
she said
"doctor I must tell you the snake has risen, it is now about here.”
Hunch
and then on the tenth day I said,
“Now this is our last hour
and do you feel cured?”
And she said while beaming,
she said “you know, this morning it came up, came out of my mouth, and the head was golden.”
Those were her last words.
Now
you see that same girl when it comes to reality
she came to me because she couldn’t hear the step of her feet anymore,
because she walked on air, literally.
She couldn’t hear it, and that frightened her.
And when she came to me
I asked for her address
....
“I have never heard of that place,” I said.
It is a very nice place she said
She cannot possibly speak of her experiences
because everybody would think she's absolutely crazy!
I, myself, was quite shocked and I thought,
"For heaven's sake, is that girl schizophrenia?"
Because you don't hear that kind of speech
but she assumed that the old man, of course, knows everything,
and he even understands such kind of language.
So you see, if... when the intuitive...
... the...
introverted intuitive
would speak what he really perceives
then, practically no one would understand it.
He would be misunderstood.
And so they learn to keep things to themselves.
And you hardly ever hear them talking of these things
that is a great disadvantage,
but it an enormous advantage in another way.
Don't to speak of the experience
in that regard... in that respect, but also in human relations.
For instance, they come into the presence of somebody they don't know
and suddenly they have inner images.
And those inner images give them more or less complete information
about the psychology of the partner.
You know, that is...
But it, of course, can also happen that they come into the presence
of somebody who they don't know at all...
...
and they know an important piece
out of the biography of that person...
and are not aware of it
and tell the story...
and then the hat is in the fire.
You see?
So the introverted intuitive is...
has, in a way, a very difficult life
Although, one of the most interesting lives.
But it is difficult, often, to get into their confidence.
It's just a... sort of a... a skeleton
to which you have to add the flesh.
Or... say, it is a country mapped out
you know, by triangulation points.
and
that doesn't mean country consists of triangulation points.
That is only in order to have an idea of the
distances.
And... and so it is a
means to an end. It only makes sense,
such a scheme, when... when you have...
when you deal with practical cases.
Well I told you that case of the intuitive girl
who suddenly came out with the statement that she had a
black snake in the belly.
Well now...
that is...
that is a collective symbol!
That is not an individual fantasy that is a collective fantasy.
