Carl Jung Cigarette smokers extroverts and pipe smokers introverts
To Robert L. Kroon
Dear Sir, 9 June 1960
There is hardly a psychological statement of which you cannot prove the contrary.
Such a statement as Dr. Eysenck’s can be true but grosso modo, as it is sometimes very difficult to establish the diagnosis with certainty.
As soon as there are symptoms of a neurosis the diagnosis becomes uncertain, as one does not know prima vista whether you are confronted with the picture of the true character or of the opposite compensating character.
Moreover there are not a few introverts who are so painfully aware of the shortcomings of their attitude that they have learned to imitate the extraverts and behave accordingly, and vice versa there are extraverts who like to give themselves the air of the introvert because they think they are then more interesting.
Although I have never made a statistique of this kind I have always been impressed by the fact that pipe-smokers are usually introverted.
The typical extravert is too much of a busybody to bother and fuss with the pipe which demands infinitely more nursing than a cigarette that can be lighted or thrown away in a second.
That does not prevent me from having found heavy cigarette-smokers among my introverts and not a few pipe-smokers among the extraverts, but normally with empty pipes.
Pipe-smoking was in their case one of the cherished introverted mannerisms.
I cannot omit to remark that the diagnosis is not rarely hampered by the fact that it is chiefly extraverts who resent being called extraverts, as if it were a derogatory designation.
I even know of a case where a famous extravert, having been called an extravert, challenged his opponent to a duel.
Faithfully yours,
C.G. Jung – Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 564-565
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Until now I have smoked 1 pipe with water condensation on beginning work in the morning, a miniature cigar after lunch, equal to 1-2 cigarettes, another pipe at 4 o’clock, after supper another little cigar, and generally another pipe about 9:30. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 103.
For a time I faithfully observed the rigorous rules of abstinence until my impatience drove me again to a few pipes . Of the 2 evils the pipe seems to me the lesser. Everything went very well from the moment I gave up the digitalis . . ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 105
Although I have never made a statistique of this kind I have always been impressed by the fact that pipe-smokers are usually introverted. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 564-565
The typical extravert is too much of a busybody to bother and fuss with the pipe which demands infinitely more nursing than a cigarette that can be lighted or thrown away in a second. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages, 564-565
That does not prevent me from having found heavy cigarette-smokers among my introverts and not a few pipe-smokers among the extraverts, but normally with empty pipes. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 564-565
Now and then Jung prepared his own mixture [Tobacco] – a solemn performance at which I had to assist. ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
The mixture [Tobacco] was kept in a dark bronze box, which for some unaccountable reason bore the name “Habbakuk.” ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
Jung was no cigarette smoker, but after luncheon he allowed himself a Brazilian cigar, which he would offer also to his friends. ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
I had to see that the supply of cigarillos called “Grüner Heinrich” did not run out. ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
Occasionally he smoked a Brissago, or a strange, snake-like, dark, exotic cigar the name of which I unfortunately never learned. ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
Smoking was one of the pleasures of the day. “A little tobacco assists concentration and contributes to one’s peace of mind,” was his justification to his doctor. ~Aniela Jaffe, From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, Page 88
