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

84 Introversion and the Four Functionsties but with what the external object has released within." 106It sees behind the scenes, fastening on, and fascinated by, theinner images that have been brought to life.Jung gives the example of a man overtaken by an attack ofdizziness. Where introverted sensation would note the physicaldisturbance, perceiving all its qualities, its intensity, itscourse, how it arose and how long it lasted, introverted intuitionwould see none of that but rather seek to explore everydetail of the images aroused by the disturbance. "It holds fastto the vision, observing with the liveliest interest how the picturechanges, unfolds, and finally fades":In this way introverted intuition perceives all the backgroundprocesses of consciousness with almost the same distinctnessas extraverted sensation registers external objects. For intuition,therefore, unconscious images acquire the dignity ofthings. But, because intuition excludes the co-operation ofsensation . . . . the images appear as though detached from thesubject, as though existing in themselves without any relationto him. Consequently, in the above-mentioned example, theintroverted intuitive, if attacked by vertigo, would never imaginethat the image he perceived might in some way refer tohimself. To a judging type [thinking or feeling] this naturallyseems inconceivable, but it is none the less a fact. 107The introverted intuitive type, like the extraverted intuitive,has an uncanny capacity for smelling out the future, the notyet-manifestpossibilities of a situation. But the intuition is directedwithin, hence they are primarily found among seers andprophets, poets, artists; among primitive peoples they are theshamans who convey the messages of the gods to the tribe.On a more mundane level, persons of this type tend to bemystical day-dreamers. They do not communicate well, arefrequently misunderstood, lack good judgment about both106 Ibid., par. 656.107 Ibid., par. 657.