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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Apart from the odd time where I get a bit "rabbit-holey" I'm not particularly interested in psychology...

... but I love history and mythology, so Jung's work on Archetypes and how it ties into the various pantheons and recurring stories is interesting to me.

That’s fair enough. Archetypes is fascinating. When it comes to introversion/extroversion psychology, I do prefer the more standardised derivatives (MBTI; socionics is a bit too much, even for me; not that obsessed with it) but Jung set the blueprint for that. It’s just that his descriptions of cognitive functions can be quite exaggerated and geared towards making more of a borderline-pathological example of them. Also don’t like the way he speaks about women with Fi (introverted feeling). He falls victim to, almost like, ‘contrary misogyny’ of the time, and it’s hard to read. But I think he had the right idea all-in-all.