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Introduction to Jungian Typology 31omed, brutal, full of mutual depreciation, even when conductedquietly and in the greatest intimacy. For the value ofthe one is the negation of value for the other. 28In the course of life, we are generally obliged to developboth introversion and extraversion to some extent. This is necessarynot only in order to coexist with others, but also for thedevelopment of individual character. "We cannot in the longrun," writes Jung," allow one part of our personality to becared for symbiotically by another." Yet that is in effect whatis happening when we rely on friends, relatives or lovers tocarry our inferior attitude or function.If the inferior attitude is not consciously allowed some expressionin our lives, we are likely to become bored and boring,uninteresting to both ourselves and others. And sincethere is energy tied up with whatever in ourselves is unconscious,we will not have the zest for life that goes with a wellbalancedpersonality.It is important to realize that a person's activities are notalways a reliable indication of the attitude type. The life of theparty may indeed be an extravert, but not necessarily. Similarly,long periods of solitude do not automatically mean thatone is an introvert. The party-goer may be an introvert livingout his shadow; the solitaire may be an extravert who has simplyrun out of steam, or has been forced by circumstances tobe alone. In other words, while a particular activity may beassociated with introversion or extraversion, this does not soeasily translate into the type one is.The crucial factor in determining type, as opposed to simplywhich attitude is currently prominent, is therefore notwhat one does but rather the motivation for doing it—the directionin which one's energy naturally, and usually, flows:28 Ibid.
32 Introduction to Jungian Typologyfor the extravert the object is interesting and attractive, whilethe subject, psychic reality, is more important to the introvert.Whether one is predominantly introverted or extraverted,there are inescapable psychological implications due to therole of the unconscious. Some of these are noted in the nextsection and more specifically in the chapters describing thecharacteristics of each attitude type. For particular medicalconsequences, see appendix 1, "The Clinical Significance ofExtraversion and Introversion."The Role of the UnconsciousThe great difficulty in diagnosing the types is due to the factthat the dominant conscious attitude is unconsciously compensatedor balanced by its opposite.Introversion or extraversion, as a typical attitude, indicatesan essential bias that conditions one's whole psychic process.The habitual mode of reaction determines not only the style ofbehavior, but also the quality of subjective experience. Moreover,it determines what is required in terms of compensationby the unconscious. Since either attitude is by itself one-sided,there would be a complete loss of psychic balance if therewere no compensation by an unconscious counterposition.Hence alongside or behind the introvert's usual way offunctioning there is an unconscious extraverted attitude thatautomatically compensates the one-sidedness of consciousness.Similarly, the one-sidedness of extraversion is balancedor modified by an unconscious introverted attitude.Strictly speaking, there is no demonstrable "attitude of theunconscious," but only ways of functioning that are coloredby unconsciousness. It is in this sense that one can speak of acompensating attitude in the unconscious.As we have seen, generally only one of the four functions isdifferentiated enough to be freely manipulable by the con-
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