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

Introversion and the Four Functions 81longer related to the reality of the object. This naturally hasthe same effect as devaluation. Such a type can easily makeone question why one should exist at all, or why objects ingeneral should have any justification for their existence sinceeverything essential still goes on happening without them. 100Seen from outside, one often has the impression that the effectof the object does not penetrate into the subject at all. Inextreme cases this can be true—the subject is no longer ableto distinguish between the real object and the subjective perception—butnormally the apparent indifference to the objectis simply a means of defense, typical of the introverted attitude,against the intrusion or influence of the outside world.Without a capacity for artistic expression, impressions sinkinto the depths and hold consciousness under a spell. Sincethinking and feeling are also relatively unconscious, the impressionsof the outer world can only be organized in archaicways. There is little or no rational, judging ability to sortthings out. Such a person, according to Jung, "is uncommonlyinaccessible to objective understanding, and he usually faresno better in understanding himself." 101100 Ibid., par. 650.101 Ibid., par. 652.