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

86 Introversion and the Four Functionsconcerned, pointing out, when pressed, that details "are reallynot that important."The aloofness of this type to tangible reality is easily misreadas indifference on the one hand and untruthfulness on theother. They are true not to outer facts but to inner images.They may not consciously lie, but their memory or evocationof an event will hardly coincide with so-called objective reality.In the extreme case, a person of this type becomes a completeenigma to friends, and eventually, since they do not feelvalued and their opinions don't seem to matter, friends maybecome thin on the ground.The extreme introverted intuitive represses both functionsof judgment—thinking and feeling—but most of all the sensationof the object. This naturally gives rise to compensatoryextraverted sensation of an archaic nature. The unconsciouspersonality, writes Jung, "can best be described as an extravertedsensation type of a rather low and primitive order":Instinctuality and intemperance are the hallmarks of this sensation,combined with an extraordinary dependence on senseimpressions.This compensates the rarefied air of the intuitive'sconscious attitude, giving it a certain weight, so thatcomplete "sublimation" is prevented. But if, through a forcedexaggeration of the conscious attitude, there should be a com-