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Jung identifies Freud as both EST and INFP Myers identifies Freud as an extrovert. Keirsey & son identify Freud as ESTP. Von Franz identifies Freud as I-FP. Van der Hoop identifies Freud as ENTP. Freud identifies himself as having Compulsive and Histrionic traits. Theodore Millon (professor of psychology and creator of the MCMI personality assessment...

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...

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...

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...

In ‘The Question of Psychological Types‘, Jung’s collaborator Hans Schmid-Guisan offers a basic schema of how the therapist should adapt himself to the patient. Schmid-Guisan provides the basic stances, to which we add our further thoughts. Patient  is: Therapist should act: Extroverted, not adapted to outside reality Introverted, to overbid the patient’s turning away from...

V. Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character: Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter Personality Types Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 In one sense, the last truly ‘philosophical’ book on Jungian typology was published more than 40 years ago. It is not that new titles on Jungian typology and Myers-Briggs have not appeared; it is rather that these books have...

According to Jung, he had originally written ‘Psychological Types‘ as a way for him to make sense of his dramatic break with Freud, which had had a severe effect on his mood as well as his social situation (as other Freudians would no longer talk to Jung or refer patients to him). Throughout the course...

This post should not be read as an endorsement of any candidate in the upcoming U.S. election. In this post we are merely trying to assess whether prior experience as a business leader can be translated into success in public office. Last week the second of the three presidential debates was resolved in the shape...

Some people come to this site after having read David Keirsey‘s portraits of the ISFP and the INFP. These people understandably think that out of those two portraits, the INFP portrait is the better fit for Bob Dylan. Having read the portraits ourselves, we agree: Going by Keirsey’s portraits, INFP really is the better fit...

It is remarkable how despotically premonition circumvents empiricism [i.e. N circumvents T / S]. [This is] how philosophy [N] has always done when it sets off to leap over the hedges of [concrete] experience [S] to reach its magical, alluring endpoint. Philosophy skips fleet-footedly ahead with magical boots on: Hope and presentiment lend wings to...

What is important to understand when inquiring into the type of Epicurus is that one cannot simply conclude that he had a preference for sensing over intuition just because of his championing of pleasure and sensual enjoyment. In Western philosophy, the British empiricists similarly held the senses in high regard as a source of information,...

The Case for INTP The BBC Interview, Face to Face, aired 1959, with transcript published in C.G. Jung Speaking, Princeton University Press, 1987: I most certainly was characterized by Thinking … and I had a great deal of Intuition, too. And I had a definite difficulty with Feeling. And my relation to reality was not...

Whether Sigmund Freud could have eased the hatred of Adolf Hitler in the years leading up to World War I, when they both were in Vienna, is a question that historians of psychology like to ask themselves, even though there is no clear answer: The young Hitler was obviously disturbed, but there is nothing to...

In order to discuss Socrates‘ type, there are two things for us to mention before we can start: (1) Socrates never wrote anything himself. Thus, what we do have on him, we have from three sources: Aristophanes, Plato and Xenophon. The puzzle of piecing together a picture of the “true Socrates” from these sources is...

A dialogue between Ryan (admin) and Aleksey (author of ‘Principles of Typology’): Aleksey: Marx – When he did not hold a job and was supported by Engels led a very non-structured lifestyle and showed few if any tendencies towards an attempt to establish a clear-cut organized schedule. I’d say INTP, not INTJ. Ryan: I think...