As I understand Jung, the whole point of identifying your personality is to find out what aspects of the self are relatively undeveloped. Sadly, the Meyer-Briggs test is usually used to pigeonhole you at work. And most people treat it like astrology, as if it supplied some magical insight into your essence. They hang their hats on it as if it were a fixed point. This stuff would make Jung spin in his grave.
The point of using getting your "score" to is not to gloat about your strengths but to identify your weaknesses, to discover what areas need work and attention. Usually, this will be the very opposite of your dominant personality. This will be your shadow. And that's what you will tend to dislike in others, what you will tend to project upon others because that's you don't like to see it in yourself. That's why I hated Forest Gump. Not to get too personal, but judging by the form and content of your posts, I'd say Krimel needs to develop his romantic side and Marsha needs to develop her intellectual side. In both cases these undeveloped shadows have become demonized little monsters with tangible negative effects. Not that I'm an Analytic Psychologist or anything. But I am a Capricorn. > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:38:38 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Able to change well. > > > On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Krimel wrote: > > >> [Marsha] > >> Archetypes are static patterns of value too. As far as archetypes go, I > >> like the Myers-Briggs > >> system of archetypes better than Jung's, but they do have a relationship. > > > >> > >> Do you have a quote or url where Jung seems to supports Bo's acronym? > >> > >> [Krimel] > >> You do know that the Meyer-Briggs test is entirely based on the > > personality > >> dimensions Jung laid out in his book "Analytical Psychology", right? They > >> have little to do with archetypes but both are Jung's. > > > > [Marsha] > > Okay, I was confusing personality types with archetypes. I suppose I > > jumped to that conclusion because of the mention of 'introverted' > > being an important Myers-Briggs type factor. > > > > Oh right, the shadow(Wendy's sewing task), anima, animus & self. > > It's been a long time. Sorry for confusion. > > > > Which Myers'-Briggs type are you? > > > > [Krimel] > > Measuring such a thing as personality is like flipping coins, reading > > entrails or claiming the swirling of old tea leaves is more or less > > prophetic than swirling new ones. I paid little mind to whatever test > > results I accumulated over the years. My personality type is whatever the > > people who interact with "it" say "it" is. I would say "it" is the type that > > either doesn't take tests or doesn't take them seriously when "it" does. > > From where I see "it"; "it" is a Shadow. Some have suggested we'd be happier > > if I'd quit stitching "it". > > > > Marsha: > > Wow. Profound. Projections. I'm thinking of a type of ... > > I liked having a type on which to hang my being an outlander. > Doesn't matter too much now, but once it was a bit of a comfort. > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
