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

2Extraversion and the Four FunctionsThe Extraverted AttitudeWhen one's conscious orientation is determined by objectivereality, the given facts in the outside world, we can speak ofan extraverted attitude. When this is habitual, we have an extravertedtype. Jung writes:Extraversion is characterized by interest in the external object,responsiveness, and a ready acceptance of external happenings,a desire to influence and be influenced by events, a needto join in and get "with it," the capacity to endure bustle andnoise of every kind, and actually find them enjoyable, constantattention to the surrounding world, the cultivation offriends and acquaintances, none too carefully selected, and finallyby the great importance attached to the figure one cuts,and hence by a strong tendency to make a show of oneself.Accordingly, the extravert's philosophy of life and his ethicsare as a rule of a highly collective nature with a strong streakof altruism, and his conscience is in large measure dependenton public opinion. . . . His religious convictions are determined,so to speak, by majority vote. 36In general, the extravert trusts what is received from theoutside world, and is similarly disinclined to submit personalmotives to critical examination.The actual subject [the extraverted person] is, so far as possible,shrouded in darkness. He hides it from himself under36 Psychological Types, CW 6, par. 972.37