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A review by sbenzell
Psychological Types by C.G. Jung
3.0
See my review of “Kafka’s Prayer” for a deeper discussion of the section of this I found most compelling.
This is a strange, highly erudite, but hard to dig into work. The author bounces between his personal theories of human psychology (distinguishing between the “persona” ie the stable attitude people take to the external world, the “anima/soul” ie the stable attitude people take to their internal world, and the “ego” ie the locus of consciousness where these play out); other people’s takes on fundamental human drives (three of these are: naive vs sentimental from Schiller — I write about this distinction in my Kafka review and I think it’s essential for understanding him; Apollonian vs Dionysian from Nietzche — I thought his coverage of this distinction didn’t add much, though I thought it was fascinating he associates Nietzche’s “ugliest man” with nietzches own dark side/subconscious (In my reading it was just nietzche himself) though I did appreciate his connection of the “ass party” to the religious attitude, and the overall vibe of Zarathustra as super Dionysian); and some introvert vs extrovert stuff) and then some more myers Briggs type psychological distinctions.
This is a strange, highly erudite, but hard to dig into work. The author bounces between his personal theories of human psychology (distinguishing between the “persona” ie the stable attitude people take to the external world, the “anima/soul” ie the stable attitude people take to their internal world, and the “ego” ie the locus of consciousness where these play out); other people’s takes on fundamental human drives (three of these are: naive vs sentimental from Schiller — I write about this distinction in my Kafka review and I think it’s essential for understanding him; Apollonian vs Dionysian from Nietzche — I thought his coverage of this distinction didn’t add much, though I thought it was fascinating he associates Nietzche’s “ugliest man” with nietzches own dark side/subconscious (In my reading it was just nietzche himself) though I did appreciate his connection of the “ass party” to the religious attitude, and the overall vibe of Zarathustra as super Dionysian); and some introvert vs extrovert stuff) and then some more myers Briggs type psychological distinctions.