"Psychological Types" by Jung

 I cannot write a long post today (the system upgrade this morning went well, thanks for asking!) but I wanted to note that I have started in on the book by Jung that led to the MBTI and to Socionics-- Psychological Types. I have made it through the translator's preface and Jung's short forward.

I am going to have to face the fact that Jung himself seemed (according to the translator anyway) to have identified introversion and extraversion as the fundamental dichotomy, the "two types". But Socionics (some day I will decide once and for all whether the word should be capitalized or not) does things with his ideas that he surely couldn't have imagined, so I shouldn't get too hung up on it.

Anyway-- more to come, after I've made my way through more of the book.

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