Do you relate more to MBTI or Carl Jungs descriptions?
I was listening to Carl Jung’s descriptions in his ‘psychological types’ and what he was trying to describe clicked a lot more for me vs mbti’s pointed conversational style explanations. It seems he was not talking about these patterns like rigid stacks but more so the psych can organise around a dominant function and in doing so it distorts all other functions. ….BUT what confuses me is his description of Ni and in an interview he talks about a woman discussing having ‘snakes in her belly’ and how she went to him using this symbolic language and after seeing her for awhile the ‘snakes went away’. Surely, this isn’t a common way for people with Ni to talk? I know it was the 1950s but surely. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk like that. Anyway, what do y’all think? I think these are genuine patterns in how people think but it seems MBTI is some corporate watered down interpretation (brooding old man using spreadsheet for love life) but then Jungs description of Ni loose me there too. What do you guys experience? Relate to about the descriptions?