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Introversion and the Four Functions 75different from extraverted feeling as is introverted from extravertedthinking.This type is difficult to understand because so little appearson the surface. According to Jung, the expression "Still watersrun deep" applies to such persons. 90 To the extent that theyare one-sided, they will seem to have no feeling and nothoughts at all. This is easily misunderstood as coldness or indifferenceon the one hand, and stupidity on the other.Jung describes the aim of introverted feeling as "not to adjustitself to the object, but to subordinate it in an unconsciouseffort to realize the underlying images":It is continually seeking an image which has no existence inreality, but which it has seen in a kind of vision. It glidesunheedingly over all objects that do not fit in with its aim. Itstrives after inner intensity, for which the objects serve atmost as a stimulus. The depth of this feeling can only beguessed—it can never be clearly grasped. It makes people silentand difficult of access; it shrinks back like a violet fromthe brute nature of the object in order to fill the depths of thesubject. It comes out with negative judgments or assumes anair of profound indifference as a means of defence. 91What is true of introverted thinking is equally true of introvertedfeeling, only in the former everything is thought, whilein the latter it is felt. Both are oriented to inner images ratherthan outer facts. Images in the introverted thinker are tied tothoughts and ideals; images in the introverted feeling typemanifest as values.Since the introversion of this type inhibits outer expression,such persons are seldom outspoken about what they feel. Buttheir subjective value system, notes von Franz, generally exerts"a positive secret influence on their surroundings":90 Ibid., par. 640.91 Ibid., par. 638.
76 Introversion and the Four FunctionsIntroverted feeling types, for instance, very often form theethical backbone of a group; without irritating the others bypreaching moral or ethical precepts, they themselves havesuch correct standards of ethical values that they secretlyemanate a positive influence on those around them. One has tobehave correctly because they have the right kind of valuestandard, which always suggestively forces one to be decent ifthey are present. Their differentiated introverted feeling seeswhat is inwardly the really important factor. 92Persons of this type neither shine nor reveal themselves.Their motives, if any, generally remain well hidden. Theyhave an enigmatic air of self-containment. They are inclinedto shun parties and large gatherings, not because they judgethose who go to them as unimportant or uninteresting (whichan extraverted feeling type might assume to be the case), butsimply because their evaluative feeling function is numbedwhen too much comes in at one time. Jung writes:They are mostly silent, inaccessible, hard to understand; oftenthey hide behind a childish or banal mask, and their temperamentis inclined to melancholy. . . . Their outward demeanouris harmonious, inconspicuous, giving an impression of pleasingrepose, or of sympathetic response, with no desire to affectothers, to impress, influence, or change them in any way.. . . Although there is a constant readiness for peaceful andharmonious co-existence . . . there is little effort to respond tothe real emotions of the other person. . . . This type observes abenevolent though critical neutrality, coupled with a fainttrace of superiority that soon takes the wind out of the sails ofa sensitive person. 93Extraverts, particularly those whose dominant function isthinking, are completely bemused by the introverted feelingtype. The former find the latter at once both peculiar and fascinating.The magnetic attraction is due to the apparent "emp-92 Jung's Typology, p. 49.93 Psychological Types, CW 6, par. 640.
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