While TypeC was down, I was reading another N/S thread on a different forum:
His post reminded me of what Linda V. Berens has been saying for years:
In my opinion, Jung would never have approved of the MBTI instrument since it directly contradicts his own thinking regarding fantasy and creative inspiration.
In The Psychology of CG Jung, his student and colleague, Dr. Jalonde Jacobi writes:
Jung attaches great importance to the creative activity of fantasy, which he even put into a category of its own, because in his opinion it cannot be subordinated to any of the four basic functions, but partakes of them all.
He rejects the usual notion that artistic inspiration is limited to the intuitive type, that intuition is the dominant function in all artists. Fantasy is indeed the source of all creative inspiration, but it is a gift that can come to any of the four types.
I certainly wasn't surprised to find out that, statistically, SPs are the most likely to be mistyped as Ns. That's because the N definitions are misleading and have departed from Jungs's original thinking - especially where the imagination and creativity are concerned.
IMO, a lot of people are getting a "free ride" under false pretense - a lot of N's. Whenever you see a question on an MBTI test, or an MBTI clone, invariably, it defaults to N when the word "imagination" is used. As I already mentioned, I don't think Jung would have agreed with that decision, on the MBTI. Any type can be imaginative.