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

A Dinner Party with the Types 117his ideas. Even his patients do not interest him, being nothingmore than "cases" which he needs in order to pursue his research.His handwriting is very small with a peculiar way of connectingthe letters, readable only by himself and his assistant.It gives the impression of an impenetrable weaving. A despairingstudent once said, "This is not writing, this is knitting!"One never sees the professor with his wife (who incidentallyis an extraverted feeling type, his typological opposite).They never go out together and rumor has it that she is totallyuneducated and was once his cleaning lady.The Extraverted Intuitive TypeThe last guest comes rushing in from the airport. He is an engineer,bubbling over with new ideas and drunk with their futurepossibilities. He is unlikely to put these ideas into action;more likely, he will inspire others to do so. At table, he talksenthusiastically about new travel plans, which seem overadventurousto the host, and gobbles down his food withoutstopping to notice it.The other guests are noticeably uncomfortable around thischarismatic young man. He seems to be unrelated to the realityof the world they live in, but at the same time his ideas areintriguing and seductive.The Introverted Intuitive TypeOne placesetting at the table is empty—the space for the pooryoung poet. He neither came nor offered an explanation; hesimply forgot all about it. He is a skinny young man with afine oval face and wide, dreamy eyes.That evening he was absorbed totally in his manuscript.Stimulated finally by hunger pangs, he went to his usualcheap restaurant. Since he has no feeling for time and space,