Hmm.. I'm bringing this back up in light of new "insight" into Jung's type. One of them is this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/093...lance&n=283155
Let's first take the review/overview:
JUNG SAID HIMSELF THAT HIS INTUITION WAS "ARCHAIC" IN NATURE!!From Publishers Weekly
In today's marketplace, books on or about spiritual therapies of all kinds are getting to be as common and, to many, as irresistible as potato chips. This succinct, gorgeously illustrated portrait of Carl Jung stands out, however, as a reminder of the profundity and singularity of Jung's achievement. Irish-born, Australian transplant Dunne (People Under the Skin, etc.) captures Jung's immense personal power and intuition, attributing it (as Jung did) to his "archaic nature," his rootedness to the earth and to the primal layers of the unconscious. Deftly interweaving letters and commentary with an extraordinary array of 150 ancient and contemporary images, including three of Jung's paintings from his private journal, the unpublished "Red Book," Dunne helps readers grasp Jung's insight that the divine contains both light and dark, and thatDas a 79-year-old Jung wroteD"A 'complete' life does not consist in a theoretical completeness, but in the fact that one accepts, without reservation, the particular fatal tissue in which one finds oneself embedded." In her introduction, psychologist Jean Houston affirms that this great modern explorer of inner life uncovered "the mythic foundations" of our individual lives and showed how the archetypal code of myth is meant to help humans "advance along an evolutionary path that carries us nearer to the spiritual source." This clear, luminous volume shows that Jung himself evolved. By the end of his life, he was not just a psychologist nor even a visionary artist but an alchemist who understood that what is highest and what is deepest in us are inextricably tethered. 50 color and 100 b&w illustrations. Author tour.
It also says that Jung was "rooted" to the Earth, hmm...
Now, on to the short excert, we can pick out a few things that hint towards his type. The author begins with stating that Jung also was a self-perclaimed "empyricist" (which is what I've been trying to say all along...). Then, it goes on to say that Jung was both "earth-rooted" and "spiritual" in nature, attributing one to the inner world, and the other to the outter. Those sound like exactly like someone who has Se-Ni Quadra values (wait, didn't I say that before, too?). Then, it continues on, talking about how Jung had a fear of being close to women. A clear sign of a logical type, but more specifically, a Ti dominant type, because Jung wrote something similar about himself that he did in the Introvert Thinking description. Here are two quotes, one is personal, the other taken from "Psychological Types":
From then on, I was always mistrusful when the word "love" was spoken. The feeling I associated with "woman" was for a long time that of innate unreliability. "Father", on the other hand, meant reliability- and powerlessness. That is the handicap I started off with. Later the early impression were revised; I have trusted men friends and have been disappointed by them; and I have mistrusted women and was not disappointed.The last thing that I can grab off of that page is that Jung had an intense love of nature, a relationship with plants, animals, earth, etc...The various measures of self-defence, the curious protective obstacles with which such people are wont to surround themselves, are sufficiently familiar, and I may, therefore, spare myself a description of them. They all serve as a defence against 'magical' influences; a vague dread of the other sex also belongs to this category.
And I just wanted to throw this one out there again, VI. I'd like to point out that Jung shares several similarities with the man Gregor Mendel, whom I've mentioned before. This is a little about Mendel:
http://braintypes.com/jon.htm
And here are the pictures:
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