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

36 Introduction to Jungian TypologyBut I remember earlier years when I functioned quite differently—inhigh school, for instance, as a blatant thinkingtype, and at university extraverted enough to be president ofthe Students' Council. And other times when introverted feelingwas certainly dominant. And then of course there werethose periods when intuition served me quite well indeed. . . .Regarding Jung's own typology, his scientific investigationsand insights point to a dominant thinking function, withsensation and intuition as well-developed auxiliary functions.However, it is also evident, from his ability to evaluate whatsomething or someone was worth to him, that his feelingfunction was not noticeably inferior.As to whether Jung was introverted or extraverted, onefeels on safer ground; only an introvert would say, as Jungdoes in the prologue to his autobiographical Memories,Dreams, Reflections,When no answer comes from within to the problems and complexitiesof life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstancesare no substitute for inner experience. Thereforemy life has been singularly poor in outward happenings. Icannot tell much about them, for it would strike me as hollowand insubstantial. I can understand myself only in the light ofinner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity ofmy life. 35—though it is true that a lapsed extravert might say muchthe same thing. . . .Welcome, then, to the adventure that is Jung’s model ofpsychological types.35 Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Fontana Library paperback,1967), p. 19.