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

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.