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Unit 3: Personality

are The McCoy, the angry side and the carefree side respectively, and The Melancholic and The Notes
Supine are The Spock, the obnoxious side and the withdrawn side, respectively.
The four temperaments have rough counterparts in more modern psychological theories, most
notably the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (sanguine = artisan, choleric = idealist, melancholic =
guardian, phlegmatic = rational). They are also similar to the four Personality Blood Types, and
are sometimes also a Four Element Ensemble. See also Cast Calculus for the overarching
archetypes in this and differently numbered ensembles. Here is an Image Archive for this trope.

3.3 Jungian Personality Preferences

Personality typing is a tool with many uses. It’s especially notable for it’s helpfulness in the
areas of growth and self-development. Learning and applying the theories of personality type
can be a powerful and rewarding experience, if it is used as a tool for discovery, rather than as a
method for putting people into boxes, or as an excuse for behavior.
The sixteen personality types which we use in our assessment are based on the well-known
research of Carl Jung, Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers. Carl Jung first developed
the theory that individuals each had a psychological type. He believed that there were two basic
kinds of “functions” which humans used in their lives: how we take in information (how we
“perceive” things), and how we make decisions. He believed that within these two categories,
there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via (1) our senses, or
(2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on (1) objective logic, or (2) subjective feelings.
Jung believed that we all use these four functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the
different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency. He believed that we could
identify an order of preference for these functions within individuals. The function which someone
uses most frequently is their “dominant” function. The dominant function is supported by an
auxiliary (2nd) function, tertiary (3rd) function, and inferior (4th) function. He asserted that
individuals either “extraverted” or “introverted” their dominant function. He felt that the
dominant function was so important, that it overshadowed all of the other functions in terms of
defining personality type. Therefore, Jung defined eight personality types:
1. Extraverted Sensing (modern types: ESFP, ESTP)
2. Introverted Sensing (modern types: ISTJ, ISFJ)
3. Extraverted Intuition (modern types: ENFP, ENTP)
4. Introverted Intuition (modern types: INFJ, INTJ)

5. Extraverted Thinking (modern types: ESTJ, ENTJ)
6. Introverted Thinking (modern types: ISTP, INTP)
7. Extraverted Feeling (modern types: ESFJ, ENFJ)

8. Introverted Feeling (modern types: INFP, ISFP)
Katharine Briggs expounded upon Jung’s work, quietly working in silence and developing his
theories further. But it was Katharine’s daughter Isabel who was really responsible for making
the work on Personality Types visible. Isabel, using her mother’s work and Jung’s work, asserted
the importance of the auxiliary function working with the dominant function in defining
Personality Type. While incorporating the auxiliary function into the picture, it became apparent
that there was another distinctive preference which hadn’t been defined by Jung: Judging and
Perceiving. The developed theory today is that every individual has a primary mode of operation
within four categories:

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