Jung and Type

Just finished a book I had picked up at the library earlier this week "Self Discovery the Jungian Way". I'd only got part way through it when I hit the 'what am I doing?' point this week.

Funny how things keep coming back ... I had introduced two ppl that I had been chatting with to the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) in the last two weeks. Having just finished (well, I skimmed, and I mean *reall* skimmed the last few chapters) the book I was pretty stunned to find it was all about type .... silly me, had forgotten that MBTI is based on Jungian theories of type.

But it was helpful to read about Type from a more psychological perspective than I have come across before (my exposure to MBTI was in a business environment).

The part I found particularly useful was the explanation of how our inferior (as in - lesser favoured) ways of being are/can be expressed.

I am of the Thinking Type .... Feeling being it's inferior/other end of the scale. Particular passages of the book indicate that if Thinking is your favoured/developed way then Feeling may come out in childish/undeveloped ways.

This is when I had one of those 'ah ha!' moments - I love those moments - when suddenly something becomes clear and understood.

So this may be what is going on. This I can understand. This is something I can work with. This is not now so scarey.

I'm so glad I decided to lay on the couch and read some more!