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

78 Introversion and the Four Functionsthis type is just as inclined to egocentricity as are the other introvertedtypes.Unchecked, the ego of the introvert assumes an overridingimportance. In this case, writes Jung, "the mysterious powerof intensive feeling turns into a banal and overweening desireto dominate, into vanity and despotic bossiness." 95 Wheresubliminal compensating processes are completely suppressed,the unconscious thinking becomes openly hostile andnegative, and gets projected into the environment. Jung describesthe result in a woman of this type:The egocentrized subject now comes to feel the power andimportance of the devalued object. She begins consciously tofeel "what other people think." Naturally, other people arethinking all sorts of mean things, scheming evil, contrivingplots, secret intrigues, etc. In order to forestall them, she herselfis obliged to start counter-intrigues, to suspect others andsound them out, and weave counterplots. Beset by rumours,she must make frantic efforts to get her own back and be topdog. . . . even prostitute her virtues in order to play the trumpcard. Such a state of affairs must end in exhaustion. The formof neurosis is neurasthenic rather than hysterical, often withsevere physical complications, such as anaemia and its sequelae.96The Introverted Sensation TypeIn the introverted attitude, sensation is based predominantlyon the subjective component of perception. Although its verynature makes it dependent on objective stimuli, the sensedobject takes second place to the sensing subject.95 Ibid., par. 642.96 Ibid., par. 643.