We can't think about our thoughts? I can. I actually think understanding cognitive processes is more beneficial than knowing one's type.
I don't understand the concept of being unable to think about our thoughts.
Give me an example of thinking about your thoughts. I'm not even sure what you're talking about.
Also science is now backing up more theory behind cognitive processes...
Really? I'd like to see something on that.
The cognitive processes can very much make scientific sense, so long as they're defined properly. Personally I think the accepted cognitive function orders are false dichotomies though -- the only true dichotomies in Jung's cognitive system are introversion/extroversion, which define mutually conflicting attitudes for a given function (precision versus applicability, broad vs deep).
And see, I think that's because he was so mystical and perceived a huge interior world to explore. But then, isn't he really thinking about abstraction...? Since it's inside, apart from the world of concrete objects. That's what really started confusing me.
He was introduced through William Sheldon sometime after WW2, and then Isabel Myer's research in 1956. It was afterwards that his own research led him to tie it in to Greek temperment theory. That's his main contribution and distinction. Not the invention of the types themselves.
Well, well!
I know there's an author he read during WWII, but I guess it's not Sheldon. I was trying to search for it on the Keirsey forum since I read something about it there but can't find it. Anywho, yeah I was thinking he got into Greek and 20th century temperament theory after Myers, but that doesn't really matter, because it still doesn't mean he got into cognitive theories. I've never read anything about that and I talk to his son all the time.
Also, don't be so hasty to start off a post calling someone "vastly uninformed". Weak. I ignored the rest of your post. All I did was simply suggest looking into MBTI, and you start off with that?
Well, you said he based his theories off of cognitive psychology. From all appearances he based his thinking on her descriptions of behavior. I guess it's possible that you think that MBTI is fully cognitive. Or if you mean that because Myers based her work on Jung, that Keirsey theory
ultimately relies on cognitive theories, you could've said that.
But apparently we were both wrong about each other's ignorance. You still think I don't know much about MBTI because apparently you were too offended to read further down.