Evidence Everywhere - Extroversion and Introversion
Friday, February 29th, 2008Carl Jung’s book Personality Types contains all the basic concepts that underlie the personality classifications for introverts and extroverts. Jung gives new and old examples from many fields to support his theory that every person tends towards either extroversion or introversion and that these two types perceive the world in radically different ways. The extrovert experiences themselves through the objects in the world while the introvert experience themselves through their own inner life.
I have a clear picture in my mind of these types after reading this book and recently I find evidence everywhere bearing witness to their existence. For instance I just read an essay by Hans Richter where he describes a form of documentary film he tends towards - Film Essays. Describing them, he says:
"In its effort to make visible the the invisible world of imaginations, thoughts, and ideas the essayistic film can tap into an incomparably larger reservoir of expressive means than the pure documentary film. One is not bound in the film essay to the representation of external appearances or to a chronological sequence. On the contrary, one must pull together the material for view from everywhere and for this reason one can jump throughout space and time: for example from the objective representation to the fantastic allegory and from here to an acted out scene."
