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

48 Extraversion and the Four FunctionsInferior introverted feeling typically manifests in a consciousattitude that is more or less impersonal. That is whythis type may seem cold and unfriendly. From their point ofview, however, they are simply more interested in the factsthan in what effect their attitude may have on others.In the extreme case, this leads to neglect of their own andtheir family's vital interests. In compensation, the unconsciousfeelings become highly personal and oversensitive—petty,aggressive and mistrustful of others.Meanwhile, the espoused intellectual "formula," which mayactually have intrinsic merit, becomes more rigid and dogmatic,completely closed to any modifications. It may eventake on the religious quality of absoluteness.Now all the psychological tendencies it has repressed build upa counterposition in the unconscious and give rise to paroxysmsof doubt. The more it tries to fend off the doubt, themore fanatical the conscious attitude becomes, for fanaticismis nothing but over-compensated doubt. This development ultimatelyleads to an exaggerated defence of the conscious positionand to the formation of a counterposition in the unconsciousabsolutely opposed to it. 53At this point there is danger of a complete collapse of theconscious attitude. Unless the disturbing unconscious factorsare brought into consciousness, the normally positive andcreative thinking of the extravert becomes stagnant and regressive.The formula degenerates to an intellectual superstition,while the individual becomes a sullen, resentful pedant,or, in the extreme case, a misanthropic recluse.The inferior introverted feeling of this type also manifestsin ways that are less unpleasant but, to the observer, no lesspuzzling: sudden and inexplicable outbursts of affection;fierce and lasting loyalties that are "unreasonable"; sentimen-53 Ibid., par. 591.