Reddit reviews Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX)

I think CelebrityTypes does a great job at outputting accessible writing based on Jung's work. A lot of their best work is in their members section.

The best place is to clear your head of MBTI and start at the source. Then start reading works by his students like Marie-Louise von Franz (look around for her lectures).

It's probably best to start with an overview by someone other than Jung himself. In that case maybe start with Jung: A Very Short Introduction.

If you want to read the man himself but aren't too familiar with him, try this in order:

• Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
  
  
• The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
  
  
• Psychological Types
  
  I started with Man and His Symbols which is branded as a good introduction. But I found it little more than a series of anecdotes and disconnected case studies, and also only one of the five(?) sections was written by Jung himself. I wouldn't recommend it.

Still looking for recommendations, but since posting, I've pulled together a list of books that seemed interesting. Wondering if anyone has any opinions?

MBTI Manual

Jung: A Very Short Introduction

Psychological Types

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction

Psychological Types, C.G. Jung

Gifts Differing, Isabel Briggs Myers

In my opinion the most essential readings on MBTI. The one flows into the other quite well, contrary to the popular belief that MBTI grew far away from Jung; Myers adapted his work pretty faithfully, it's the recent stuff that strays.

The eight function models are a branch of the original model. Any four function model doesn't necessarily reject the 8-fcts, but the latter is just redundant and imo confusing. The essential reason for this, as I see it, is that the latter sees the e/i movement of energy as momentary while the former, 4-fct, sees it as typical. If Ti, for example, is Thinking typically drawn inwards, then it makes no sense that the same person sometimes typically goes outwards.

The texts online are slightly dated in their form of expression and the book has been revised. AFAIK it's not available to read online. It's worth buying. There's another online source that also has the Definitions and with links to quickly skip to the interested sections. The new version also contains an appendix with four articles/lectures by Jung about typology.

>I’m new to this MBTI/Enneagram stuff

brah, y u no show luv for Big Five?

Also I suggest you start at the beginning.

Start at the source:

Psychological Types by C. G. Jung

Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers

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Okay. Here's an MBTI certified master practitioner that teaches a class accredited for practitioner continuing education explaining it:

https://youtu.be/-T9f7b7dOzQ

"Energy," or, "libido," in psychological types also means something different than colloquially used terms. Here's a copy of that book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691018138/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_P3E1DbVVYAWHG

have you read this? i've had my copy for a little over a year but haven't really dug into it (I was trying to finish Psychological Types)