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Concluding Remarks 91joy being with other people is characteristic of the extravertedattitude, but this does not automatically mean that a personwho enjoys lots of company is an extraverted type.Naturally, a person's activities will to some extent be determinedby typology, but the interpretation of those activitiesin terms of typology depends on the value system behind theaction. Where the subject—oneself—and a personal valuesystem are the dominant motivating factors, there is by definitionan introverted type, whether at a party or alone. Similarly,when one is predominantly oriented to the object—things and other people—there is an extraverted type, whetherin a crowd or on one's own. This is what makes Jung's systemprimarily a model of personality rather than behavior.Everything psychic is relative. I cannot say, think or doanything that is not colored by my particular way of seeingthe world, which in turn is a manifestation of my typology.This psychological "rule" is analogous to Einstein's famoustheory of relativity in physics, and equally as significant.Being consciously aware of the way I tend to functionmakes it possible for me to assess my attitudes and behaviorin a given situation and adjust them accordingly. It enablesme both to compensate for my personal disposition and to betolerant of someone who does not function as I do—someonewho has, perhaps, a strength or facility I myself lack.From this point of view, the important question is notwhether one is introverted or extraverted, or which function issuperior or inferior, but, more pragmatically: in this situation,or with that person, how did I function? With what effect?Did my actions and the way I expressed myself truly reflectmy judgments (thinking and feeling) and perceptions (sensationand intuition)? And if not, why not? What complexeswere activated in me? To what end? How and why did I messthings up? What does this say about my psychology? Whatcan I do about it? What do I want to do about it?
92 Concluding RemarksType TestingAlthough Jung did not foresee the current commercial use ofhis model of typology, 115 he did warn against its misuse as "apractical guide to a good judgment of human character":Even in medical circles the opinion has got about that mymethod of treatment consists in fitting patients into this systemand giving them corresponding "advice." . . . My typologyis far rather a critical apparatus serving to sort out and organizethe welter of empirical material, but not in any sense tostick labels on people . . . . It is not a physiognomy and not ananthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing withthe organization and delimiting of psychic processes that canbe shown to be typical. 116Typological analysis determined by written tests is at bestmisleading, at worst downright dangerous. Such tests are collectivelybased and static; that is, their validity is statistical andtime-specific. They may give a reasonable picture of one'sconscious predilections at the time of the test, but in ignoringthe dynamic nature of the psyche they say nothing about thepossibility of change.Type tests are currently in vogue in the corporate world.The most, or best, one can say about this is that in the handsof a competent and knowledgeable interpreter they will not dotoo much damage. They may in fact show quite accurately, asmeasured on the day of the test, the possibility that a particularperson will or will not fit, at that time, the requirements ofa particular job or environment. But for how long? To whose115 The most widely used type tests based on Jungian principles are theMyers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Gray-Wheelwright Type Survey and theSinger-Loomis Inventory. According to Fortune magazine ("PersonalityTests Are Back," March 30, 1987, pp. 74ff), "some 1.5 million people"took the Myers-Briggs test in 1986.116 Psychological Types, CW 6, pp. xiv-xv.
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