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Extraversion and the Four Functions 51The danger for this type lies in being overwhelmed by theobject—traditional and generally accepted standards—and solosing any semblance of subjective feeling, that is, what isgoing on in oneself.Extraverted feeling that is devoid of personal parametersloses all its charm, and, as with extreme extraversion in general,is unconscious of ulterior, self-centered motives. It meetsthe demands or expectations that are presented by outer situationsand stops there. It satisfies the required aesthetics of themoment, but it is sterile. The normally heart-felt expressionsof feeling become mechanical, the empathetic gestures seemtheatrical or calculating.If this process goes any further, a curiously contradictory dissociationof feeling results: everything becomes an object offeeling valuations, and innumerable relationships are enteredinto which are all at variance with each other. As this situationwould become quite impossible if the subject received anythinglike due emphasis, even the last vestiges of a real personalstandpoint are suppressed. The subject becomes so enmeshedin the network of individual feeling processes that tothe observer it seems as though there were merely a feelingprocess and no longer a subject of feeling. Feeling in this statehas lost all human warmth; it gives the impression of beingput on, fickle, unreliable, and in the worst cases hysterical. 57For this type it is of the utmost importance to establish agood feeling rapport with the environment. But when this becomestoo important, the subject—the person who feels—isengulfed. Then feeling loses its personal quality and becomesfeeling for its own sake. The personality itself is dissolved ina succession of momentary feeling states, often in conflictwith each other To the observer, this appears as differentmoods and statements that are blatantly contradictory.57 Ibid., par. 596.
52 Extraversion and the Four FunctionsIndeed, thinking, the other rational function, is invariablyrepressed when feeling is dominant. Nothing disturbs feelingmore than thinking (and, as we have seen, vice versa). feelingtypes do not have to think about what someone or somethingis worth to them, they just know.The extraverted feeling type may think a great deal, and infact be quite clever, but thinking is always subordinated tofeeling. Hence logical conclusions, processes of thought thatmight lead to a disturbance of feeling, are rejected out ofhand. "Everything that fits in with objective values," writesJung, "is good, and is loved, and everything else seems to ...exist in a world apart." 58In the extreme case, the healthy compensatory attitude ofthe unconscious becomes open opposition. This appears firstin extravagant displays of feeling—gushing talk, passionatedeclarations, etc.—that seem intended to block out logicalconclusions that are incompatible with the feeling "required"at the moment.Though the thinking of the extraverted feeling type is repressedas an independent function, the repression is not com-58 Ibid., par. 598.
Page 2 and 3: Personality Types
Page 4 and 5: PERSONALITY TYPESJung’s Model of
Page 6 and 7: CONTENTSPreface 91 Introduction to
Page 8 and 9: Classification does not explain the
Page 10 and 11: PrefaceThis book is not a critique
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Appendix 1The Clinical Significance
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A Dinner Party with the Types 115an
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Index 123self-examination, 23self-r
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