06-20-2020, 10:11 PM
Where did Jung write about these "archetypes?" Sounds like a Popular Science interpretation of what he actually said.
These are more like personality types. But Jung said there were eight personality types, each a combination of introversion or extroversion and one of the four functions of consciousness (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition), hence:
The extroverted thinking type
The introverted thinking type
The extroverted feeling type
The introverted feeling type
The extroverted sensing type
The introverted sensing type
The extroverted intuitive type
The introverted intuitive type
In this system, extroverts tend to be objective and introverts subjective, and "sensing" refers to the five ordinary physical senses.
There's a difference between an archetype and a personality type. The archetypes that Jung wrote about, and Edinger expounded on in Ego and Archetype, are things like shadow and anima. The archetypes are contents of the unconscious, and all of them reside in a single individual. No single archetype constitutes a person's whole personality except in pathological cases where a patient is possessed by one of them. Moreover, they're usually projected, and a person doesn't encounter them in himself except in dreams.
These are more like personality types. But Jung said there were eight personality types, each a combination of introversion or extroversion and one of the four functions of consciousness (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition), hence:
The extroverted thinking type
The introverted thinking type
The extroverted feeling type
The introverted feeling type
The extroverted sensing type
The introverted sensing type
The extroverted intuitive type
The introverted intuitive type
In this system, extroverts tend to be objective and introverts subjective, and "sensing" refers to the five ordinary physical senses.
There's a difference between an archetype and a personality type. The archetypes that Jung wrote about, and Edinger expounded on in Ego and Archetype, are things like shadow and anima. The archetypes are contents of the unconscious, and all of them reside in a single individual. No single archetype constitutes a person's whole personality except in pathological cases where a patient is possessed by one of them. Moreover, they're usually projected, and a person doesn't encounter them in himself except in dreams.
