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Appendix 1The Clinical Significance ofExtraversion and IntroversionH.K. Fierz, M.D. 121Extraversion and introversion are typical, constitutional attitudes.The primary interest of the extravert lies in the object,that of the introvert in the subject.If we wish to study the possible medical consequences ofthese two basic attitudes, we must first understand the momentat which subject and object arise.Subject and object always appear when relationships whichhave hitherto been governed by a participation mystique areexposed to criticism, whether from the subject himself orfrom someone else. 122 Such an event may affect the wholepersonality, for instance, in the young child, or in largely unconscious,undifferentiated people. But even in differentiated121 H.K. Fierz was medical director of the Zurich Clinic and ResearchCenter for Jungian Psychology (Klinik am Zurichberg) for more thantwenty years, until his death in 1985. He was also a training analyst at theC.G. Jung Institute in Zurich.This article was originally published in German in Acte psychotherapeutica,1959. The English translation first appeared in Current Trends inAnalytical Psychology (Proceedings of the 1st International Congress forAnalytical Psychology, 1958), ed. Gerhard Adler (London: TavistockPress, 1961).122 [The term participation mystique, derived from the anthropologistLucien Levy-Bruhl and used frequently by Jung, denotes a primitive unconsciousconnection in which one cannot clearly distinguish oneself fromother people. This is what lies behind the natural phenomenon of projection,in which one sees in someone else characteristics that are actuallyone's own. See Jung, "Definitions," Psychological Types, CW 6, par.781.—D.S.]101