I Knew There Was A Reason
Top Ten Thousand Ways Women Drive Men Crazy:
Isn't that lovely ... released.The contents of the collective unconscious are represented in consciousness in the form of pronounced preferences and definite ways of looking at things. These subjective tendencies and views are generally regarded by the individual as being determined by the object—incorrectly, since they have their source in the unconscious structure of the psyche and are merely released by the effect of the object. [emph. mine]
OMG.But they are stronger than the object’s influence, their psychic value is higher, so that they superimpose themselves on all impressions.
Just as it seems incomprehensible to the Introvert that the object should always be the decisive factor
Is.... it remains an enigma to the Extraverts how a subjective standpoint can be ...
Or worse. It gets much worse. This piece was obviously written by a male—not that I remember the link. Links—feh.... superior to the objective situation. He inevitably comes to the conclusion that the Introvert is either a conceited egoist or crack-brained bigot.
Which may be #1 on the list. Higher than one. Maybe the list goes to eleven.The Introvert certainly lays herself open to these suspicions, for her positive, highly generalizing manner of expression ...
I don't know that you'd call it inflexibility so much as, Why waste my time and yours?... which appears to rule out every other opinion from the start, lends countenance to all the extravert’s prejudices. Moreover, the inflexibility of her subjective judgment in setting itself above all objective data ...
Who you callin' unconscious.... is sufficient in itself to create the impression of marked egocentricity. Faced with this prejudice, the introvert is usually at a loss for the right argument, for she is quite unaware of the unconscious ...
I don't know why he has to say unaware—projective identification, no doubt, for are we not the receptacle for all things inferior? Were we not thought to have the mental capacity of Idiots, and therefore unable to fucking vote? FCS?... but generally quite valid assumptions on which her subjective judgment and her subjective perceptions are based.
Does that tick you off when you think about it? It does me. Think about it.
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It is interesting that he assigns gender to these styles. I do think, though, that he admires the introvert so much more.
"it remains an enigma to the Extraverts how a subjective standpoint is superior to the objective situation..."
Maybe this explains why the extrovert can seem to have no capacity for moral judgments and appear sometimes not to be in possession of a tangible and solid core.
I think we can do away with the "seems" and "appears" and find we are but telling the truth about life.
I don't know why these qualities should be equally distributed amongst people - nothing else is.
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