The Extraverted Sensation type is the best photographic apparatus, as it were. He can quickly and objectively relate to outer facts, which is why you find this type among the good mountaineers, engineers, business people, and so on, all of whom have a wide and accurate awareness of outer reality in all its differentiations. This type will remark on the texture of things -- whether silk or wool -- for he will have feeling for the material; thus aesthetical good taste is generally also present. Jung says that such people very often give an outer impression of being rather soulless. You may all have met such a soulless engineer type, where one has the feeling that the man is absolutely dedicated to engines and their oils and so on and sees everything from that angle. He produces no feeling and does not seem to think much either, and intuition is completely lacking, for that is for him just the realm of crazy fantasy. The Extraverted Sensation type calls everything approaching intuition mad fantasy, completely idiotic imagination, and something that has nothing to do with reality. He can even dislike thought, for if he is very one-sided, he will call that always getting into the abstract instead of keeping with the facts...
...Everything which might have been a hunch or a guess, or anything intuitive, appears in a type where sensation is differentiated in an unpleasant form. That is, if this man had intuitions at all, they would be of a suspicious or grotesque kind. For example, he [ an Extraverted Sensation teacher of hers] in quite an amazing way ventured into graphology, and one day I brought him a letter written by my mother excusing me for not having been able to come to the course because I had the flu. He looked at the writing and said, "Did your mother write that?" I said yes, and he said, "Poor child!" He only sensed the negative! He was like that. He would get suspicious fits about his colleagues and the children in his class. You could see that he had some kind of dark intuition of something murky, for his intuition, being inferior, was like a dog sniffing in the garbage pails and such places -- he was interested in dirty linen. This inferior kind of intuition was often right, but sometimes completely wrong! Sometimes he just had persecution ideas -- dark suspicions without any foundation. A type who is so accurate on the factual level can suddenly get melancholy, suspicious premonitions, ideas of dark possibilities, and one does not know how these suddenly cropped up.
Now because he was an Extraverted Sensation type, his intuitions were more on an introverted level. That remark, "poor child," was by chance turend toward an outer object, namely to me and my mother's handwriting, but normally inferior intuition circles around the subjective position of the sensation type, very often in dark feelings or hunches or premonitions about illnesses which he might get or other misfortunes which might befall him. That means the inferior intuition is, in general, egocentric, it is turned toward the subject but with an egocentric quality to it, and it often has this kind of negative, depreciative attitude. If you get such people nicely drunk or very tired, or know them intimately so that they come out with their other side, then if they produce intuitions, they only produce the most amazing, weird, eerie ghost stories.
Another aspect of inferior intuition in an Extraverted Sensation type is a sudden attraction for Anthroposophy, Theosophy, or some other cocktail of Eastern metaphysics, generally of a most otherworldly and metaphysical type. Suddenly very realistic engineers and people who you would think are the most unlikely persons would join such a movement and with a completely uncritical mind get quite lost in it. That is because their inferior function has such an archaic character. On their writing desks, to your great amazement you will find mystical writings, but of a rather second-class quality. If you ask them if they read that, they will say that it is just nonsense but that it helps them to go to sleep -- that is when the main function still denies the inferior function! If, for example, you ask the Anthroposophists at Dornach who supplied the money for their buildings, you will find that it came from just such Extraverted Sensation peopled. As a whole, you can say that the American nation, for instance, has a very great number of Extraverted Sensation types, which is why on the other hand such strange movements flourish especially well in the United States, to a much greater extent than in Switzerland, for example. In Los Angeles, you can find practically every kind of fantastic sect, and you are told a host of unrealistic stories of a rather dubious character.
I remember analyzing such a type, and during the day, in the middle of another hour, I suddenly had a telephone call from him. The man was sobbing over the telephone and said he was overwhelmed: "It happened -- I cannot tell you, I am in danger!" Now, this was not a hysterical person, and he had no latent psychosis or anything of the kind, so you would never expect him to behave in this way. I was absolutely astonished and asked him if he would be able to go to the station and buy a ticket and come to Zurich -- he was living in another Swiss town...
...by the time he arrived he had snapped back into his superior sensation and brought me a basket of cherries, which we cheerfully ate together. I said "And now what?" But he could not even tell me! Because by getting to the station and buying the cherries, he had gotten back onto the upper level again. He had been attacked for a minute from the other level, and the only thing I got out of him was when he said "For a minute I knew what God was! It is as if I realized God! And it shook me so much that I thought I would go mad, and now it is gone again. I remember it, but I cannot convey it anymore, and I am no longer in it." There, via the inferior function, intuition, he suddenly had the whole collective unconscious and the Self, and everything. For a minute -- like a flash -- it all came up and completely shook the upper part of his personality, but he could not hold it. That was the first beginning of the coming up of inferior intuition, which shows its tremendous creative and positive, as well as its dangerous, aspect. Intuition has that quality of conveying a tremendous amount of meaningful contents simultaneously. You see the whole thing in one minute, in one second, and that had come up for a minute -- and then it went again. There he was, munching cherries, back in his rather flat, ordinary, extraverted sensation world.
In genuine fantasies such as those of Edgar Allen Poe or the poet Gustav Meyrinck, intuition is established in its own right, for these fantasizes are highly symbolic and can be interpreted in a consistent way. But a sensation type always wants to concretize his intuitions in some way.
Originally Posted by The Wonkette
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