For a very long time, I have believed that Jung's
native type was introverted intuition, with extraverted thinking as his
auxiliary, what the MBTI would code as INTJ. I can't see him as an
introverted thinking type, with extraverted intuition (INTP).
I give the argument for my view of Jung's type in
the tapes I recorded for the Chicago Jung Institute, "A
New Model of Psychological Types." But I also agree with some
that Jung himself wouldn't--confronted--have admitted to anything, and
with others who have noticed that Jung himself liked to give the
impression that introverted thinking was superior in him (in Memories, Dreams, Reflections,
he implies that he had to sacrifice his superior thinking to realize his
intuition).
For me, a lot depends upon the type of the anima,
and judging from his encounter in active imagination with the blind
Salome, I would say that anima was extraverted sensation. There's little
or no evidence for an extraverted feeling anima in Jung--and much
evidence that the feeling he did have was introverted feeling (which
those of you who know my model I would locate in the third position [tertiary],
that of the puer aeternus, giving him a narcissistic, self-serving way
of privileging his own feelings over those of others that did not feel
like a mature integrity, but a form of self-indulgence).
He was however extraordinarily generous, as well as
generative with his thinking, which is why we are all the beneficiary of
his psychological ideas, truly the mark of a fatherly extraverted
thinking, which as you know I would place in the second position
[auxiliary] for him.
