Personality types: Jung's model of typology - Inner City Books

116 A Dinner Party with the TypesThe Introverted Feeling TypeThis woman, the industrialist's wife, is quiet and impenetrable.Her eyes have a mysterious depth. An inexhaustible topicof conversation for the hostess, who loves to analyze the relationshipsof others, is the powerful influence this youngwoman has over her husband.This small and fragile woman seemingly does nothing toexcite the amazing dependency of this heavy and insensitiveman. Yet he follows her everywhere with his eyes and tries tocatch hers. He asks her opinion constantly.The explanation lies in the complementary nature of theseopposite types. For this man, his wife is the bearer of thoseintroverted depths which he has no access to within himself.For this reason she personifies the image he carries of theideal feminine—his anima.Introverted feeling types do not express their emotions often,but when they do it is with great power. These individualsaccumulate an enormous amount of inner affect and this compressedintensity lends them a special aura, often perceived asan inviolate and mysterious strength.Such types are often artistically gifted. This young womanhas one real passion in her life—music. For her, music expressesthe world of her feeling in a pure and uninterruptedform. Here she finds complete harmony uncontaminated bythe worldly reality she finds so jarring.Without her husband, however, she would have little contactwith the outside world. He personifies her inner image ofthe ideal man—her animus.The Introverted Thinking TypeIn the meantime, a new visitor has come in. He is a professorof medicine, specializing in sleeping sickness. He is as wellknown for his boring lectures as for his new discoveries in hisfield. He has no contact with his students and dislikes sharing