People love typologies

[Teacher]

On the one hand, it's easier when you have a template-script-system, by which you understand "what kind of animal?" in front of you, you understand "why does a person do this?" But on the other hand, it often kills a person's entire individuality.

When I write reports on a profiling conversation, I pay great attention to how exactly this person shows signs of a particular psychotype and how this is combined with his tendency (the second psychotype).

I propose to consider different approaches.

Probably the most famous division of people is the division into extroverts and introverts, which was proposed by Carl Gustav Jung.

He suggested that there are four main psychological functions: thinking, believing, feeling, and perceiving. Each person has one or more of the ethical functions that are most clearly manifested in him. For example, in an impulsive personality, according to Jung, the functions of "feel and perceive" prevail over the functions of "think and believe."

Based on this, Jung identified two main types of people, where each has its own characteristics that distinguish it from the other.

Extraverted personality type

Interests of this type are focused on external reality, on others, and not on their inner world. Such people make decisions, thinking about their impact on the reality around, and not their own existence. Their decisions and actions are carried out in accordance with what others think of them. These people can fit into almost any environment, they are suggestible and easily influenced, they tend to imitate others. Theirs is important to be recognized by others.

Introverted personality type

This type is interested in himself, his feelings, interests and thoughts. They are guided by their own behavior in accordance with what they feel and think, and yes, this may run counter to external reality. They are not too worried about the outside world, about what impact their actions can have on the environment. This type of people worries about everything that satisfies them internally.

Personality types

Considering four basic psychological functions and two types of basic personality, Jung describes eight different personality types.

Reflexive extrovert

Often such people are associated with objective, intelligent individuals, whose actions are almost exclusively based on reason. They can be called digital, they take for the truth only what they can confirm with a sufficient amount of evidence, facts. A person of this type is not very sensitive, can be tyrannical and manipulative in relation to others.

Reflective introvert

These are people with high intellectual activity, but at the same time, they have difficulty in social communication, and there are difficulties in interacting with others. They are quite stubborn and stubborn people when it comes to achieving goals and closing tasks.

Sentimental extrovert

Such a person has a great ability to understand other people and establish social relationships. However, they struggle to separate themselves from the herd and suffer when ignored by those around them.

Sentimental introvert

From the outside, they seem to be lonely people who have great difficulty in establishing social contacts with other people. They do their best to remain unnoticed, but they are sensitive to the needs of others.

Receptive extrovert

Such a person will praise something as "beautiful" or "good" not because of subjective judgment, but because it suits others and is in harmony with the social situation. They are usually very good-natured and make friends easily. They are quick to assess the demands of the external situation and readily sacrifice themselves for others.

Shrewd introvert

These are the personality types that are commonly found in creative people. Such people place particular emphasis on sensory experiences. They attach great importance to color, shape and texture - for them it is a source of inner experience.

Intuitive extrovert

This type corresponds to the typical adventurer, they are quite active and restless. They need a lot of incentives all the time, they are persistent and immediately move from one goal to another, quickly forgetting the previous one.

Intuitive introvert

Such a person is extremely sensitive to the most subtle stimuli. They can almost guess what others are thinking, feeling, or wanting to do. This type is creative, dreamer and idealist.