Quote Originally Posted by gooey View Post
Interviewer: "Have you concluded what psychological type you are yourself?"

Jung: "Well, you see, the type is nothing static. It changes in the course of life, but I most certainly was characterized by thinking. I always thought, from early childhood on, and I had a great deal of intuition too. And I had a definite difficulty with feeling, and my relation to reality was not particularly brilliant. I was often at variance with the reality of things."

Socionics has some splanin' to do!
Not really. Jung pointed out that type can change... but he's referring to neurosis-inducing situations, happening over decades; they're also pretty rare... probably just regular people being neurotic. You'll also find that Jung thinks his own type has changed.

Get his book, Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 (Bollingen Series), and you'll find this on p. 69:
“As a natural scientist, thinking and sensation were uppermost in me and intuition and feeling were in the unconscious and contaminated by the collective unconscious.”
But obviously he considers himself more intuitive later in life, like in that video. So what happened?

Well, if you read about his history, like in Visions, you'll find that he got in touch with his inferior side to further his research... after this point he turns towards some pretty esoteric stuff. So now, after having visions and stuff, he must think himself pretty intuitive.

Do you buy into the paranormal and stuff like synchronicity? Jung did. Just because he came up with a good idea doesn't mean all of his ideas are good. Just take a look at Freud. Don't tell me he didn't come up with anything of value, just cause his sexual theories suck.