Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung
Psychological Types
by Carl Gustav Jung · first published 1971
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…Williams1 et al, Oxford JournalsLife Sciences & Medicine Cerebral Cortex (2006) http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/12/1809.full If you're interested, perhaps a good place to start is Carl Jung's Psychological Types (1921), here it's in my dropbox. I had it digitized into electronic form https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrf6whb66fbmaux/Psychological%20Ty... Many very intelligent, rational people believe introverts and…
on “Show HN: My Resume 2.0” ↗We shouldn't trivialize Jung's and Myer's work because of the pop culture surrounding it. Psychological Types and it's surrounding works (though, I haven't read The Red Book yet) contain a great deal of insight.
on “A study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types” ↗…the Roman stuff they adopted (e.g. the Nazi standards which harken to the Roman standards). https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Ngy5XGuS2Y/U_kCNxwY_5I/AAAAAAAAJ... Nietzsche wasn't perfect IMO. You can read Psychological Types by Carl Jung who does a beautiful job of analyzing and filling in the holes in Nietzsche's positions.
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on “Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?” ↗…http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221 "The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, called MBTI for short, more properly owes the bulk of its credit to the great Swiss analytical psychologist Carl Jung. In 1921, Jung published his book Psychological Types, in which he laid out all the same concepts found in the MBTI [...]" "An American woman, Katherine Briggs, bought Jung's book and was fascinated by it. She recommended it to her married daughter, Isabel…
on “The Tyranny of the Extroverts” ↗introversion was a concept long before psychologists started to get technical with it. I believe that's wrong; the term was introduced by Jung in Psychological Types and thus originates as a technical concept in psychology.
on “Myths About Introverts” ↗…oneself and others. The MBTI has some correlation to the Enneagram, and it is from that correlation that it takes most or all of its validity. But the correlation is only partial. If you look in Jung's Psychological Types, you will see that he correctly characterized eight of the nine Enneagram types (which one he missed I leave as an exercise for the reader). Missing one type, he was unable to see the whole structure…
on “The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless” ↗…accurate and much more profound than the MBTI. The MBTI is really a confused mess. It purports to be based on Jung's type system. However, a close reading of the relevant section of Jung's <i>Psychological Types</i> reveals the following. Jung identified eight types. The descriptions in his book correspond quite closely, in fact, with eight of the Enneagram types. (The omitted one is the Three.) Myers…
…Jung's theory -- to the point that it's not at all clear that Jung himself would have endorsed it. Jung described eight types, not 16. Some years ago I read the descriptions of the eight types in Jung's Psychological Types and compared them with the nine types of the Enneagram. Indeed, Jung's descriptions matched up very well with eight of the Enneagram types. (He missed the Three.) The MBTI, by comparison, is a mess.…
on “Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test?” ↗Here are my pairings. (I'm at work and don't have my copy of Psychological Types handy, so this is going off someone else's interpretations [0]. But I think this is probably right.) ES - 7 IS - 9 EI - 8 II - 4 ET - 1 IT - 5 EF - 2 (but see below) IF - 6 The EF description…
on “The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless” ↗…the times you yourself are living in. I take issue with Nietzsche's skepticism and derision of democracy but I'm willing to entertain his arguments and perspective. Carl Jung put forth a theory in his Psychological Types that Nietzsche's particular views on democracy were a reaction to his particular historical circumstances which makes sense to me.
on “A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience” ↗…recognize themselves in it and have uncovered some patterns in their daily lives using that test. Jung first found out that people behave according to certain patterns and classified them in his book Psychological Types, and his work was then built upon by others. But the basic idea is we act and react to situations according to our particular personality type. And knowing that information can help us know more about…
on “Show HN: Mintraits – Personality test built with Claude” ↗It's based on analytical psychology from the 1920s as Jung laid out in "Psychological Types." The funny thing is MBTI was developed for carbon copy paper and as an instrument to quickly type people. So they created the 4th column because in their scoring and layout, they couldn't indicate whether…
on “Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams: study” ↗…his own principle, the judgment of ‘egoist’ would be radically false; for the justification of his attitude would be established by its general efficacy, and all misunderstandings dissipated. " Jung -Psychological types "You want to be understood? That’s all we needed! Understand yourself, and you will be sufficiently understood. You will have quite enough work in hand with that" Jung - Red book
on “How to Network as an Introvert” ↗…interesting line of exploration. As with any non-peer reviewed work, it should be treated with due skepticism. Lastly, for those interested in further reading, I have digitized a copy of Jung's seminal work, 'Psychological Types (1921)' [5] am sharing it for anyone wishing to study the source material. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newtons_religious_views [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newtons_occult_studies…
on “Myers-Briggs: Does it pay to know your type?” ↗