Talk:Extroversion

Total rewrite?
I have put the old article back for the time being, because I believe it is more informative that the minimalist description that replaced it. In order to avoid a potential edit war, perhaps we can all work together to not only produce an article that satisfies everyone, but is also better and more informative than both of them.

I was rather surprised to read here that Freud proposed the terms "extravert" and "introvert". Certainly the popular view that these terms were coined by Jung has been challenged by Hans Eysenck, but he claimed (see his "Fact and Fiction in Psychology" (1965; Harmondsworth: Penguin)) that Jung took these terms over from earlier usage, where they had, according to Eysenck, being used many years earlier, predating Freud and Jung. Also, I think that this article should explain how the terms "extravert" and "introvert" have been defined in different ways in various ways, with, for example, Eysenck's definition differing from Jung's.


 * Hi. Please sign your comments. I'm not sure who inserted the bit on Freud but it's certainly not accurate --Alterego July 7, 2005 15:56 (UTC)


 * FROM: Cardamom. I was the person who inserted the above comments on Freud and Jung. I shall be interested to hear from any one in which year, book source Freud first used the terms "introvert" and "extravert". However, I still stick by what I say about what is  written in Hans Eysenck's "Fact and Fiction in Psychology", and if you read this, you will read that, according to Hans Eysenck, Carl Jung did not actually coin the terms "introvert" and "extravert" but took them over from earlier European usage.


 * If you check the talk page for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator you will find the complete history of the terms pasted in from the Oxford English Dictionary. (ps, it's easiest to sign your name by just inserting --~ after your comment. The parser will do the rest. --Alterego July 8, 2005 22:52 (UTC)