As Kramer might have said, the Myers-Briggs is the biggest con job since
one-hour Martinizing.
On the scale of legitimacy it falls somewhere between palm reading and
astrology.
George K. Cunningham
University of Louisville
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Blunden [mailto:a.blunden@pb.unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:11 AM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Jung and Vygotsky
>
>
> Can I take the risk of opening a new parallel thread while we're all still
> reading through Leontyev?
>
> It has been a point of concern for me for a long time that there are two
> psychologies which address cognition and begin from the normal
> ativity of a
> human being in society, rather than the psychotic individual mind, viz.,
> activity theory and Jungian Briggs-Myer Typology.
>
> So far as I can see the Briggs-Myer types are well founded empirically and
> are very satifactory from a conceptual point of view, but so far as I know
> they lack any scientific connection with any other aspect of science, and
> it is surely Vygotskian psychology (for want of a better word) which is
> where one would look for a foundation.
>
> Has anyone studied this?
>
> Andy
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