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

28 Introduction to Jungian TypologyIn fact, the undeveloped attitude becomes an aspect of theshadow, all those things about ourselves we are not consciousof, our unrealized potential, our "unlived life" (see below,"Typology and the Shadow," chapter 4). Moreover, being unconscious,when the inferior attitude surfaces—that is, whenthe introvert's extraversion, or the extravert's introversion, isconstellated (activated)—it will tend to do so, just like the inferiorfunction, in an emotional, socially unadapted way.Since what is of value to the introvert is the opposite ofwhat is important to the extravert, the inferior attitude regularlybedevils one's relationships with others.To illustrate this, Jung tells the story of two youths, one anintroverted type, the other extraverted, rambling in the countryside.25 They come upon a castle. Both want to visit it, butfor different reasons. The introvert wonders what it's like inside;the extravert is game for adventure.At the gate the introvert draws back. "Perhaps we aren't allowedin," he says—imagining guard dogs, policemen andfines in the background. The extravert is undeterred. "Oh,they'll let us in all right," he says—with visions of kindly oldwatchmen and the possibility of meeting an attractive girl.On the strength of extraverted optimism, the two finally getinside the castle. There they find some dusty rooms with acollection of old manuscripts. As it happens, old manuscriptsare the main interest of the introvert. He whoops with joy andenthusiastically peruses the treasures. He talks to the caretaker,asks for the curator, becomes quite animated; his shynesshas vanished, objects have taken on a seductive glamour.Meanwhile, the spirits of the extravert have fallen. He becomesglum, begins to yawn. There are no kindly watchmen,no pretty girls, just an old castle made into a museum. Themanuscripts remind him of a library, library is associated with25 See Two Essays, CW 7, pars. 81ff.