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

Extraversion and the Four Functions 53plete .... It is suffered to exist as a servant of feeling, or ratheras its slave ... Accordingly the unconscious of this type containsfirst and foremost a peculiar kind of thinking, a thinkingthat is infantile, archaic, negative. So long as the consciousfeeling preserves its personal quality, or, to put it another way,so long as the personality is not swallowed up in successivestates of feeling, this unconscious thinking remains compensatory.59When the personality dissolves into a succession of contradictoryfeeling states, however, the ego identity is lost and thesubject falls into the unconscious. The stronger the consciousfeeling, the stronger becomes the unconscious opposition."The 'nothing but' type of thinking comes into its own here,"writes Jung, "since it effectively depotentiates all feelings 'thatare bound to the object." 60People of this type have at times the most negative anddeprecatory thoughts about the very persons most valued bytheir feelings. Indeed, the presence of such thinking, normallydormant in the background, is one of the main indications thatextraverted feeling is the dominant function. Von Franz pointsout that such thoughts are typically based on a very cynicaloutlook on life; moreover, they are usually turned inward:At bottom he allows himself to think that he is a nobody, thathis life is worthless, and that everybody else might developand get on the path of individuation, but he is hopeless. Thesethoughts dwell in the back of his mind and from time to time,when he is depressed or not well off, or especially when he introverts,that is when he is alone for half a minute, this negativething whispers at the back of his head: "You are nothing,everything about you is wrong." 61As a result, the extraverted feeling type hates to be alone;59 Ibid., par. 600.60 Ibid.61 Jung's Typology, p. 45.