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

A Dinner Party with the Types 119The other guests respond in various ways to the professor'sdiscourse, each for a different reason. The lawyer is alwayscurious about noteworthy or educational ideas; the industrialistis most interested in what the professor says about thepractical implementation of his work; the refined host is nauseatedby the description of the illness and his digestion is upset.But the most profound reaction is experienced by the hostess.She had tried at the beginning, unsuccessfully, to channelthe professor's long monologue into a different direction.Eventually, unable to follow the conversation, she gave up.She cannot comprehend such conversation and finds itvaguely offensive. Her happy face has fallen, her eyelids areheavy and she is bored to death. Only at the end of the party,showing off her home and children to the industrialist's wife,does she regain her lively nature and happy disposition.