As Forer's astrological experiment demonstrated, people are quick to accept flattering explanations without questioning them as Harlan Ellison said: Unfortunately, the entertainment value of this game is limited, since it isn't hard to get them to accept even nonsensical notions. Extra points if the new idea clearly contradicts their previous claims. Some cynical individuals develop a game for interacting with this type: engage them, pretend to buy into their self-delusion, and then try to suggest something even more outlandish to see if they'll accept it. They want to talk about themselves, indulge in their fantasy, and be confirmed by those around them. No matter the form this delusion takes, it can be very frustrating to deal with someone who is so self-centered. Now, I don't want to just pick on New Age spiritualists, because there are plenty of people who do the same thing on the other end: 'I've always been a very rational thinker', 'I find it so hard to be around naive people', 'I have this passion for world politics', 'I watch a lot of documentaries'. Which is why these people often say the same sorts of things: 'I'm a little bit psychic, it runs in the family', 'I'm very in-touch with my spiritual side', 'I have Cherokee blood', 'I've always been very creative'. Self-creation is like writing a novel: the average person trying to do it is going to end up with something cliche, hackneyed, conflicted, and ultimately self-serving. Like any art, it takes a level of skill and determination that most people lack. There are some rare people for whom the act of personal recreation is a serious matter-people who explore their own depths, trying on new personae, always shifting and moving-they are the artists of identity, and they are few. They want to be special and important, and are less interested in understanding themselves than in creating an image. It is not mere soul-searching, because they dislike even reasonable criticism, and cannot stand to be made aware of the ways their actions conflict with the vision they have of themselves. There are certain people who delight in mythologizing their lives-looking for deep meanings and explanations for who they imagine themselves to be. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation-the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/ German: ), often referred to as C.
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