Jung heavily criticized Freud’s theories as trying to essentially boil human behavior and personality down to affect alone, so his theory makes no comparable pretense
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big five is better behavior data collection, but pretty useless as an interpretive practical framework for individuals, because it insists on pulling apart the way different factors interact and treating traits as isolated
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Sorry, but there are at least 4 basic errors here.
Firstly, MBTI is not Jung's theory. Jung had his own theory. Briggs and her daughter are not Jung.
Secondly, MBTI claims to be do all of the things you listed. It doesn't get extra points for actually doing something else.
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it’s functionally an adaptation of Jung’s theory regardless of any of its interior elements or claims. and despite its failings - and the inherent failings of psychometric testing - it’s valuable for the utility its abbreviations provide in discussing cognitive patterns.
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I agree, but A) Jung did it better, in his own context, B) Big Five does it better from a scientific perspective (i.e. the traits are more clearly delineated, neuroticism is discussed, at all...), C) it's not what MBTI purports to do, which is to test personality.
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we’re mostly on the same page it seems. I just tend to defend MBTI as a correlate of Jung since most people wouldn’t care to make that differentiation, so hats off on that one.
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re: neuroticism, that’s a dynamic that plays out *within* type structure, and probably one of the worse things they could have posited as a fundamental trait. I heavily dislike the linearity of big 5 dimensions compared to the differential sets of anything of Jungian descent
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I agree. I just wish they were well-founded differential sets (in the case of MBTI - other post-Jungian theories that I've seen do things quite interestingly.)
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I’m somewhat lost as to what differentiation you’re making between Jung’s theory and its descendants and why. the differential set structure is completely established by Jung (even if only implicitly) when he posits the secondary function. all post-jungian theory rests on this
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if the discrepancy with MBTI you’re pointing at is in the nature of the letter dichotomies, that’s a strictly notational issue, but it represents all the same things
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Let's not go in circles. I've said already where my problems with MBTI start.
If you want, though, I can try to write something long-form on it later. Would be good for me to reacquaint myself with Jung a bit. But that requires me to do some re-reading first.