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Freud's type

Gabe

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I'd also like to add that obviosly any function can 'lend itself to psychology', including extraverted sensing.
 

GZA

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Somewhere in the back pages this has been covered. I think the types people guessed ranged from ISFP to ESFJ and many others, but no conclusion was made.
 

Mondo

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I would say an Extrovert of some sort, especially if he equated Introversion to narcissism. This would probably mean an ENFX, if he views narcissism as a negative thing.
 

ThatsWhatHeSaid

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DEFINITELY an N, probably introverted, if you read some of his other ideas, he comes off as a T. I'm going J, but who knows. INTJ is my uneducated guess.
 

Kiddo

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Judging by the fact that he actually gave up sex in order to sublimate his energy I would say he was an INXJ.
 

Gabe

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omg, that's hilarious!
but, of course, he was also encouraging his patients to masturbate
 

Usehername

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DEFINITELY an N, probably introverted, if you read some of his other ideas, he comes off as a T. I'm going J, but who knows. INTJ is my uneducated guess.

see: website by PBS on his life

After watching the extraordinarily well done full-length video done by PBS on his life, he is without a doubt:

*very logical; detached emotions from his logic (although he had strong emotions) (xNTx)
*most strongly motivated by the need to achieve; be seen as a genius (xNTx)
*a devoted romantic (they showed some of his love letters to his wife when they were courting) but he ended up spending more time on his work than his relationships (xNTx)
*driven to apply his ideas to reality (xNTJ); i.e. it was not enough to fully understand, he HAD to apply it
*he revolutionized the way people approached "hysteria" and laid the foundations for a wave of understanding psychological patterns (abuse, somatoform disorders, conversion disorders, mood disorders, etc.) xNxx.

He seemed more introverted to me, however, he is without a doubt an xNTJ.
 

Blackwater

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After studing the matter through many sources I am still not certain.

I think that

1 He was probably too neurotic to really fit with a given type
2 He was probably too much of a genius to fit with a given type

But here's what I think:

E (fairly obvious)
N (by a small margin)
T (extremely obvious)
J (only by an extremely small margin)

and with Jung:

I (extremely obvious)
N (extremely obvious)
T (fairly obvious)
P (very obscure)

actually, MBTI doesnt really seem to fit with Jung's personality. Ironic, huh?

I think the most accurate describtion of Jung is that he was an INTP with dominant Ni :huh:
 

Gabe

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After studing the matter through many sources I am still not certain.

I think that

1 He was probably too neurotic to really fit with a given type
2 He was probably too much of a genius to fit with a given type

But here's what I think:

E (fairly obvious)
N (by a small margin)
T (extremely obvious)
J (only by an extremely small margin)

and with Jung:

I (extremely obvious)
N (extremely obvious)
T (fairly obvious)
P (very obscure)

actually, MBTI doesnt really seem to fit with Jung's personality. Ironic, huh?

I think the most accurate describtion of Jung is that he was an INTP with dominant Ni :huh:

hmm. So we have Jung saying that Freud's system represents extraverted thinking, but we also have freud being extremely sensitive to any criticism, and supposedly quite a different person in real life than in his writings. also, none of his thinking was particularily generative (read *differentiated*).
 
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