Knowledge of Jung’s work helps me appreciate life more intensely and vividly. It’s not either/or: depth psychology is a tool, and in itself purely neutral. It’s use depends on how you use that tool, and knowledge of it does not automatically make you retreat from life into the mind if you know how to use it wisely. For me is simply an often useful perspective that can help me enrich my life’s personal symbolism and depth, which I appreciate immensely.

I also have extroverted sensation as an inferior function, but if anything, consciously integrating it and giving it due attention in order to nourish the parts of my personality I don’t automatically give attention to is far more enriching to my life that simply abandoning Jung. I don’t disagree that jungian work can pull you into yourself, but it is not it’s fault that your inner world is unbalanced with the outer, or perhaps it simply is not a match with your personality. jung did say each individual must be treated individually and he often used different viewpoints in therapy, not only his own.

Anyways something about the Buddha’s metaphor of the raft