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

40 Extraversion and the Four Functionssatisfaction of elementary needs indispensable to physicalwell-being is easily overlooked.Not only the body suffers, but the psyche as well. The formerbecomes apparent in physical symptoms that even theextravert cannot ignore, the latter in aberrant moods andbehavior patterns that may be obvious only to others.Extraversion is an obvious asset in social situations, and inresponding to external requirements. But a too extravertedattitude may unknowingly sacrifice the subject in order to fulfilwhat it sees as objective demands—the needs of others, forinstance, or the many requirements of an expanding business."This is the extravert's danger," notes Jung. "He getssucked into objects and completely loses himself in them. Theresultant functional disorders, nervous or physical, have acompensatory value, as they force him into an involuntaryself-restraint." 42The form of neurosis most likely to afflict the extravert ishysteria. This typically manifests as a pronounced identificationwith persons in the immediate environment and an adjustmentto external conditions that amounts to imitation.Hysterics will go to great lengths to be interesting to otherpeople and to produce a good impression. They are noticeablysuggestible, overly influenced by others and effusive storytellersto the point of fantastically distorting the truth.Hysterical neurosis begins as an exaggeration of all theusual characteristics of extraversion, and then is complicatedby compensatory reactions from the unconscious. These lattercounteract the exaggerated extraversion through symptomsthat force the individual to introvert. This in turn constellatesthe extravert's inferior introversion and produces another setof symptoms, the most typical being morbid fantasy activityand the fear of being alone.42 Ibid., par. 565.