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

Extraversion and the Four Functions 45This type will, by definition, be a man whose constant endeavor—inso far, of course, as he is a pure type—is to makeall his activities dependent on intellectual conclusions, whichin the last resort are always oriented by objective data,whether these be external facts or generally accepted ideas.This type of man elevates objective reality, or an objectivelyoriented intellectual formula, into the ruling principle not onlyfor himself but for his whole environment. 48At their best, extraverted thinkers are statesmen, lawyers,practical scientists, respected academics, successful entrepreneurs.They are excellent at establishing order, whether onpaper, in their everyday lives, or at a business meeting. With agood sense of facts, they bring clarity into emotional situations.They are assets on any committee; they know Robert'sRules of Order and when to apply them.At worst, this type is a religious zealot, a political opportunist,a con man (or woman), a strict pedagogue who brooksno dissent.According to Jung, the extreme extraverted thinking typessubordinate both themselves and others to their "formula," asystem of rules, ideals and principles that in the end becomesa rigid moral code. Their benchmarks are justice and truth,based on what they consider to be the purest conceivable formulationof objective reality. "Oughts" and "musts" are typicallyprominent aspects of their intellectual standpoint. Thosearound them must, for everyone's good, obey the "universallaw":If the formula is broad enough, this type may playa very usefulrole in social life as a reformer or public prosecutor or purifierof conscience, or as the propagator of important innovations.But the more rigid the formula, the more he developsinto a martinet, a quibbler, and a prig, who would like to force48 Ibid., par. 585.