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

82 Introversion and the Four FunctionsThe inferior extraverted intuition of this type, writes vonFranz, "has a very weird, eerie, fantastic quality . . . concernedwith the impersonal, collective outer world." 102 As mentionedearlier, the tendency of sensation is in fact generally to repressintuition, since it interferes with the perception of concretereality. Hence intuition in this type, when it does manifest,has an archaic character.Whereas true extraverted intuition is possessed of singular resourcefulness,a "good nose" for objectively real possibilities,this archaicized intuition has an amazing flair for all the ambiguous,shadowy, sordid, dangerous possibilities lurking inthe background. The real and conscious intentions of the objectmean nothing to it; instead, it sniffs out every conceivablearchaic motive underlying such an intention. It therefore has adangerous and destructive quality that contrasts glaringly withthe well-meaning innocuousness of the conscious attitude. 103Unlike extraverted sensation types, who pick up intuitionsthat concern the subject—themselves—introverted sensationtypes are more inclined to have dark prophetic fantasies ofwhat might happen in the outside world—to their family or"mankind." They are also prone, notes von Franz, to soulfloodinginsights that belie their usual down-to-earth nature:Such a type might, while walking down a street, see a crystalin a shop window, and his intuition might suddenly grasp itssymbolic meaning: the whole symbolic meaning of the crystalwould flood into his soul. . . . That would have been triggeredoff by the outside event, since his inferior intuition is essentiallyextraverted. Naturally, he has the same bad characteristicsof the extraverted sensation type: in both, intuitionsare very often of a sinister character, and if not worked upon,102 Jung's Typology, p. 81.103 Psychological Types, CW 6, par. 654.