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Antoine Panaioti: Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy Cambridge University Press, 2013 Review by Ryan Smith  “I could become the Buddha of Europe … though frankly, I would be the antipode of the Indian Buddha.” – Nietzsche Inquiries aiming to compare Buddhism to Nietzsche’s thought have for some time abounded on the fringes of the academic landscape,...

“With Aristotle … a new cultural type was born, a model of the wise man different from that of his predecessors, and especially different from the sages.” – Carlo Natali: Aristotle: His Life and School, Princeton University Press 2013 ed., p. 2 By Ryan Smith To our knowledge, we were the first to assess Aristotle...

Articles attempting to link Jungian typology to aesthetic preferences have always been popular, but unfortunately many of them are of poor quality, along the lines of “ISTPs like Bloodhound Gang and ESFJs like roses and rainbows.” With the help of a prior study by Joan Evans, D.Litt., we will nevertheless attempt to give an outline...

Comment: Freud has got to be an INTJ. It seems unlikely that an Si-dom would have invented a field as abstract, personalized, and disconnected from reality as psychoanalysis. Almost every quote on your infographic could just as easily apply to an INTJ. Freud didn’t use a data-oriented approach; he generalized from his own and his patients’...

Articles attempting to link Jungian typology to aesthetic preferences have always been popular, but unfortunately many of them are of poor quality, along the lines of “ISTPs like Bloodhound Gang and ESFJs like roses and rainbows.” With the help of a prior study by Joan Evans, D.Litt., we will nevertheless attempt to give an outline...

Articles attempting to link Jungian typology to aesthetic preferences have always been popular, but unfortunately many of them are of poor quality, along the lines of “ISTPs like Bloodhound Gang and ESFJs like roses and rainbows.” With the help of a prior study by Joan Evans, D.Litt., we will nevertheless attempt to give an outline...

The following article assumes that the reader has some familiarity with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and his understanding of the phenomenon/noumenon-divide. The noumenon was very important for Jung, and in Psychological Types §659 he even assumed that Ni types could see into the noumenon. But why should the noumenon even exist? Many people, especially...

As some readers will know, John Beebe is a medical doctor and self-identified ENTP who has written a lot on typology. Beebe also played a crucial part in developing the theory of cognitive functions from a four-function model to an eight-function model (a notion which we cannot agree with at CelebrityTypes). Beebe has offered a...

(1) ENTPs have Ne and ENFJs have Ni. So ENTPs tend to be more “all over the place” and do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and then something completely different. What they’re interested in is whatever is new and expands the borders of their present understanding, breaks it down, and...

Q: How do I tell the difference between a shy and brooding ENTP and an INTP? A: This is a very good question. As the truism goes, the ENTP is the “most introverted extroverted type.” Also, if you look at our ENTP page, and especially the extended content, you’ll see that it’s crawling with ENTPs...

THE QUESTION I’ve been wondering lately about the effect an absent or abusive father figure would have on an IN type’s development? From what I’ve read, the growth of the auxiliary is stunted and the tertiary provides compensatory strength, along with some manifestation of shadow characteristics. The lacking parent makes differentiation difficult, so the tertiary...

1. Study Personality Broadly Personality is an unsolved puzzle, and Jungian typology is but a tiny piece of that puzzle. It says something about the arrangement of the four functions and their orientations. All sorts of other factors that pertain to the personality are, in effect, irrelevant to the system.  Even if you know everything...

(1): Expecting every scientist to be NT: “I have always found that people of mediocre knowledge of the world expected the most from systematic [typologies]. Men who know the world are the best [typologists] and expect the least from general rules.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799), quoted in Paul J. Stern: C.G. Jung...

In an earlier post we argued why the physicist  Neil deGrasse Tyson is ENFJ. And if you are into physicists that are in the habit of making science-popularizing performances, you may also be familiar with the British physicist Brian Cox, whom we estimate to be ENFP. These two men showcase how Extroverted Feeling (Fe) and...

Jung identifies himself as both ISTP (early life) and INTP (later life). Myers identifies Jung as I-TP. Keirsey & son identify Jung as INFJ. Von Franz identifies Jung as both an N-domiant type (i.e. EN-P or IN-J) as well as a “Thinking-Intuition type with inferior Feeling,” – “the same type as herself,” i.e. INTP. Van...