Quote Originally Posted by Tallmo View Post
You can associate all you want and connect different fields intuitively. That doesnt help. Socionics is all about learning to observe cognitive processes empirically. Its a fact that there are 16 types. It comes from reality. If you let your intuition run free im sure you can connect it with all kinds of mythologies. As you can with everything.

Im not gonna argue about this anymore. I appreciate astrology as a mythology. Because thats what it is. It says something about the unconscious in projected form. As do all mythology. But to take it litterally is not the right thing.
I agree with pretty much it all but if you get to read about how Jung formulated his hypothesis (and obviously both MBTI and socion even more come from it) you'll see how influenced he was by astrology and other eastern spiritual ideas. Yeah he worked them out but they're evidently at the core, he even argued with many of his colleagues because of the origin of his ideas and the ideas themselves, and no wonder this side of his research went in the folder of "Jung's crap" later, but it's still there. Not to mention that typology methods are as abstract as astrology, now it's cool that it is labeled as "psychological", it instantly acquires a title, but not for this it can be scientifically proved.

It's funny I just went in the same argument talking of the provable side of astrology on an astrology forum eh