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

Extraversion and the Four Functions 49tal attachments or mystical interests that defy all logic.In such instances, the conscious thinking process is subvertedby primitive reactions that have their source in the subject'sunconscious and undifferentiated feeling.The Extraverted Feeling TypeThe feeling of the extraverted type, like extraverted thinking,is oriented by objective data and generally in harmony withobjective values.As a rational function that determines what something isworth, one might assume that feeling would be based on subjectivevalues. According to Jung, however, this is true onlyof introverted feeling:Extraverted feeling has detached itself as much as possiblefrom the subjective factor and subordinated itself entirely tothe influence of the object. Even when it appears not to bequalified by a concrete object, it is none the less still under thespell of traditional or generally accepted values of somekind. 54It is characteristic of extraverted feeling that it seeks to createor maintain harmonious conditions in the surrounding environment.For instance, the extraverted feeling type willpraise something as "beautiful" or "good" not because of asubjective evaluation, but because it is proper to do so accordingto the social situation. This is not pretence or hypocrisy,but a genuine expression of feeling in its extraverted mode—an act of adjustment to objective criteria.A painting, for instance, is called "beautiful" because a paintinghung in a drawing room and bearing a well-known signatureis generally assumed to be beautiful, or because to call it"hideous" would presumably offend the family or its fortunate54 Ibid., par. 595.