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

Introversion and the Four Functions 77tiness"—from the point of view of the extravert—that criesout to be filled. Of course the reverse is also true: the introvertedfeeling type is naturally drawn to one who mixeseasily and is articulate in a group. In each case the other is thepersonification of the inferior function. 94Such encounters are common everyday occurrences, as isthe subsequent acrimony. Although with mutual insight thereis always the possibility of a lasting relationship, the fascinationwith one's opposite type, as pointed out in the introduction(see page 30), seldom lasts indefinitely.Just as introverted thinking is counterbalanced by a kind ofprimitive feeling, to which objects attach themselves withmagical force, introverted feeling is counterbalanced by aprimitive, inferior thinking. Since thinking in this type is extraverted,it tends to be reductive—concretistic, slavishly orientedto facts. This is in fact a normal and healthy compensationthat works to mitigate the importance of the subject, for94 In later life, the attraction is more commonly between the dominantfunction of one and the auxiliary function of the other. This seems to be amore workable combination, perhaps because the complexes associatedwith the inferior function are not so easily constellated.