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

Extraversion and the Four Functions 57scrupulous aesthetes, gross hedonists. Jung describes whatthis looks like in a man:Although the object [is] quite indispensable to him, yet, assomething existing in its own right, it is none the less devalued.It is ruthlessly exploited and squeezed dry, since now itssole use is to stimulate sensation. The bondage to the object iscarried to the extreme limit. In consequence, the unconsciousis forced out of its compensatory role into open opposition.Above all, repressed intuitions begin to assert themselves inthe form of projections. 65Projection here gives rise to the wildest suspicions, jealousfantasies and anxiety states, especially if sexuality is involved.These have their source in the repressed inferior functions andare all the more remarkable since they typically rest on themost absurd assumptions, in complete contrast to the extravertedsensation type's conscious sense of reality and normallyeasy-going attitude.More acute cases develop every sort of phobia, and, in particular,compulsion symptoms. The pathological contents havea markedly unreal character, with a frequent moral or religiousstreak ... or a grotesquely punctilious morality combinedwith primitive, "magical" superstitions that fall back on abstruserights . . . . The whole structure of thought and feelingseems ... to be twisted into a pathological parody: reason turnsinto hair-splitting pedantry, morality into dreamy moralizingand blatant Pharisaism, religion into ridiculous superstition,and intuition, the noblest gift of man, into meddlesome officiousness,poking into every comer; instead of gazing into thefar distance, it descends to the lowest level of human meanness.66As with any of the functions that attain an abnormal degreeof one-sidedness, therefore, there is always the danger that65 Psychological Types, CW 6, par. 608.66 Ibid., pars. 608ff.