![]() ![]() ![]() He coined introvert for someone who needs quality time on their own and extrovert (although Jung spelled it “extravert”) for the person who never feels better than when in a crowd. The Swiss psychologist devised a series of personality types. Have you ever discussed whether you were introverted or extroverted? Undergone a personality test on a training course? Wondered what lurks in the shadow side of your character? Carl Jung is the person to thank. But what would he make of the 21st century so far, asks Mark Vernon. Alongside Sigmund Freud, he is arguably one of the two people of the 20th century who most shaped the way we think about who we are. “The afternoon of life must have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage of life’s morning,”Ĭarl Gustav Jung died 50 years ago today. I came across this article on the BBC web site, and was intrigued, so have reproduced it in its entirety: What Carl Jung would have made of the world today ![]()
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