There's been lots of controversy
surrounding Carl Jung's MBTI
personality type. Multiple different
people have typed Jung and have given
Jung several different types but there
are two men heavily debated types. On
one side there's the people that say he
typed himself as a introverted thinker
with auxiliary intuition so he must be
INTP. On the other side there's the
people that type him through his work
and his methodology and conclude that he
is an introverted intuitive type with
introverted thinking overtones, thus he's
an INFJ.
In this video I'm gonna give you my take
on his type. So to the people that say
that because he created the theory and
he typed himself as an INTP, so he must be
INTP, I have a question
Why not reflect on that?  Why not reflect
on his typing on himself it shouldn't be
absolutely indisputable that he's an INTP just because he said that. I understand
that he typed himself as Ti but even a
scholar of his own field can be wrong at
times. Maybe he was blinded by his own
subjective interpretation of himself. He
could have a biased view of himself.
After all he is human. Everyone has some
type of bias on how they view themselves.
Just saying that he typed himself as
INTP seems argumentatively lazy and
logically fallacious, the logical fallacy
in this case would be appeal to
authority. If he typed himself as INFJ,
all your views would be changed I bet
this whole situation would be completely
different than it is now. There's more
than just one definitive source on who
he is. It's really bad to predicate your
opinion on just one simple conjecture. So
it's definitely possible that, yes, the
man himself, Carl Jung, could actually get
his own type wrong anyone could lose at
their own game so to speak. Technically
speaking he didn't even really type
himself as INTP. He never granted
himself with auxiliary extroverted
intuition. All he did was grant himself
with auxiliary intuition. Now let me
show you how his system differs from the
Myers-Briggs. The key here is in the
auxiliary functions. in Jung system, if
your attitude of consciousness is introversion you are an introvert.
If your attitude of consciousness is
extroversion you are an extrovert. The
opposite attitude is the attitude of the
unconscious. The auxiliary function
exerts a co-determining influence on
consciousness therefore it must be
conscious (or the conscious realm at
least.) So for example my functions would
be in order, introverted thinking,
introverted sensation,
extroverted intuition, and extroverted
feeling. Instead of the widely accepted
model, introverted thinking
extroverted intuition, introverted
sensation, and extroverted feeling. So it
is implied that Jung, assuming that he
is going by his own system,
technically type himself as introverted
thinking, introverted intuition,
extroverted sensation, and extroverted
feeling. So maybe you're thinking, "So
whether he typed himself as this? It still
"might translate to Myers-Briggs as INTP."
Well my response to this would be, maybe
or maybe not. But going off the function
axes method, I say most likely not. It
still doesn't remove the fact that he
can still be wrong about his own type.
So here's my take and analysis. His
interpretation and evaluation of the
collective unconscious and the
archetypical psychology seems heavily
influenced on his own personal
perception of his own subjective
observations.
It has also combined with his own subjective
understanding of things it's why his
works are so very insightful and
ridiculously abstract. His work is also
quite ambiguous, meaning that if he had
introverted sensation and introverted
thinking, he'd probably specify his
terminology a lot more meticulously, yet
he covers such things with the overall
picture and symbols and motifs. Jung's
investigation and interests with alchemy,
established in the idea of the
individuation, yet in addition in the
concept of wholeness, harmony, uniting the
anima and animus with a caring grasp and
accomplishing the ideal harmony among
yin and yang, in masculine and feminine,
is a manifestation of introverted
intuition and extroverted feeling. The
very idea of the collective unconscious
seems very clearly introverted intuition.
However in some striking degree
extroverted feeling likewise introduces
itself as a result of that subliminal
connectedness that
we as humans all have. In regards
to the introverted manner, his focus was
intuitive, to put it in his own words he
himself (I would believe) he "moved from
image to image (e.g. the archetypes)
perusing each possibility of the
overflowing the womb of the unconscious
(e.g. the collective unconscious)" Now in
respect to his extroverted manner, it was
a focus on people in which he provided
extremely insightful advice to them on
individuation, knowing of the self,
utilization of persona, the development
of the types as not just a psycho
analytical tool but also a philosophical
tool to know why people think the way
they do, and believe the things they
believe, and how he can provide
assistance as a psychotherapist. Ergo
a notable manifestation of extroverted
feeling. Introverted sensation and
introverted thinking respectively are
very meticulous, as opposed to
introverted intuition which is very
subject to ambiguity because of its
focus on the overall vision. Now
personally I have yet to see a
convincing argument for extroverted
intuition in Carl Jung's
type. Although Objective Personality does
give a bit of a good argument for
extraverted intuition but that's another
video for another day. So psychological
types was developed in a clinical
setting and used to identify the polar
extremes of psychosis, (I think
this is introverted intuition
wanting to see what's going on behind
the scenes) such that these extremes when
the fully manifested would be considered
undesirable, and the goal of his practice
was to help his patients move from these
toxic polarities to a more healthy
middle ground or balance as a result of
extroverted feeling. Now the theory of psychological types itself
seemed Ti but in his book
Psychological Types,
he doesn't really go on about the theory
in fully fleshed out detail like a true
Ti type would, (You know like
Leibniz inventing calculus.) This is
obvious because people have tried to
develop their own theories about his
theory and
improve upon it. He did most importantly
connect his intuitive observations about
the types to other insights and
intuitions such as the collective
unconscious and archetypes, which he
created himself. This is also a
representation of introverted intuition
because, as Jung defines, intuition it's a
function which goes the very process of
transmitting perceptions and mental
representations of relations between
phenomena. Extroverted intuition if the
phenomena is objective and introverted
intuition if phenomena is subjective.
Jung connects his own already existing
observations and insights to others of
his own. This is introverted intuition
and direct action in the work
Psychological Types. Another way to
figure out his type is to contrast him
with a well-known INTP, Immanuel
Kant. So Kant says that reality is
ultimately unknowable because of our
subjective sensations, thus we must
appeal to pure reason. Jung says that
reality is unknowable, thus we must rely
on our intuitions and subjective
experiences, and our subjective
experiences are our personalized entry
points to the world. Kant states that
a priori concepts exists and these
concepts are purely categorical,
conceptual, and logical. Jung says that a
priori concepts exists and that these
concepts are the result of subjective
experiences and intuitions (i.e. the
collective unconscious). Kant's methodologies
were based on pure reason alone,
showing its limitations and its
foresights.
Jung's methodologies were based on
observation and symbolic intuitions
about things.
Kant was concerned with what we can
logically allow ourselves to be true and
he basically said that we
must hold back from our intuitive hunches
about what is true. Jung was concerned
with what what is perceived to be true
and he said that we must follow our
visions in our intuitive hunches and not
hold back on them (i.e. his work on
spirituality). You can also
see introverted intuition in Jung's
concept of synchronicity. To him, every
coincidence that happens has a grand
meaning behind it. He used the concept to
argue for the existence of the
paranormal. Events connected by meaning
need no logical explanation according to
Jung, like the logical explanation of
causality. Jung believed that life was
not a series of random events but rather
an expression of a deeper meaningful order,
which he referred to as Unus Mundus,
which means "One World," an underlying
reality from which everything emerges
and everything returns. These concepts
and terminologies weren't really
provided with purely logical
explanations. And I think that a Ti type
would actually provide purely logical
explanations for these, but Jung didn't do
this. And these concepts are rather
reminiscent of other introverted
intuitive sort of ideas like Nietzsche's
Eternal Recurrence or Plato's Theory
of Forms and it's connection to the
Anima Mundi, or Heraclitus' Unity of
Opposites. So I'll just end this video
with a quote from a Jungian scholar and
analyst, Natalie Pilard.
 
 
