Introversion and extraversion

Introversion-extraversion is one of great dimensions of the personality. Proposed by the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, within the framework of analytical Psychology.

The concept was in particular studied by Hans Eysenck. Several tests of Personnalité take again this dimension.

“Because it is cold outside, one feels immediately thorough to put its overcoat; another, because he wants to become hardened, finds that it is useless; one admires the new tenor, because everyone admires it; the other does not admire it, not that it finds it unpleasant, but it thinks that is not necessarily admirable what everyone admires; one is subjected to the circumstances given because the experiment shows that it is impossible to make differently, while the other is persuaded that what was thousand times can very well, the thousand and unième time, to become something again. The first (the extraverti) is directed according to the external facts given, the other (the introvert) reserves an opinion which slips between him and the objective data. ”

The behavior of the one and the other become understandable in the relation between Autonomie and heteronomy extended through Marx, Erich Fromm and Ivan It.

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