In the book ‘Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types‘, the author, James Graham Johnston, assesses the types of the people listed below. It should be noted that Johnston does not subscribe to the law of opposites as postulated by later theoreticians in the field. As such, his types are different and cannot be compared to the[…] Continue Reading
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Jung’s Early Statement on Adler’s Type In Psychological Types (1921), Jung makes the following statements on Adler’s type: “Freud would like to ensure the undisturbed flow of instinct towards its object; Adler would like to break the baleful spell of the object in order to save the ego from suffocating in its own defensive armour.[…] Continue Reading
By the CT admin team After V.W. Odajnyk and Edward Hoffman “Adler had only one idea. It was a good idea, but he did not get beyond [that].” – C.G. Jung As we have detailed in another article, the contributions of extroverts to the history of ideas tends to get overlooked in favor of similar[…] Continue Reading
NTJ/NFP: The insides are the insides. NTP/NFJ: The outsides are the insides. NTJ/NFP: The outsides are the outer layers around the insides. NTP/NFJ: The outsides are the outer layers around yet more outsides. NTJ/NFP: It is the insides that determine a thing’s true nature and worth. NTP/NFJ: It is the outsides that determine a thing’s[…] Continue Reading
In Psychological Types §540, Jung says of Hegel: As forerunners of Nietzsche’s intuitive approach I would mention Schopenhauer and Hegel, the former because his intuitive feelings had such a decisive influence on his thinking, the latter because of the intuitive ideas that underlie his whole system. In both cases, however, intuition was subordinated to intellect,[…] Continue Reading
Can Custer really be an Si type? Is he not rather a man characterized by extroverted sensation (Se) and thus an ES-P type as his popular image would seem to suggest? When we started doing research, a penchant for Se was indeed what we expected to find. And while ideally, the best practice when dealing[…] Continue Reading
As if the epistemological status of Jungian typology were not already compromised enough by the prevalence of people who type by face reading, stock characters, and handwriting analysis, a further problem that mars the field is the circulation of unfounded rumors about celebrities self-identifying as certain types or taking personality tests and coming out as[…] Continue Reading
When Jung first put forth his theory of the types, Jungian typology became the state of the art of its day. Since then, other schools of personality studies have emerged, and now modern science seems to be converging on the idea of the trait theory and the Big Five personality traits. As such, with regards[…] Continue Reading
Short answer: No. Just like face reading and stock characters, the notion that handwriting analysis can be linked to type is spreading like wildfire in type training organizations and on the internet. In this post we will explain why we think graphology is completely lacking in validity and why it should not be used in[…] Continue Reading