Speaker 1: Among the many psychological types outlined by Karl Gustav Jung,
Speaker 1: there is one that occupies a unique place, not only
Speaker 1: due to its rarity, but also because of the psychic
Speaker 1: complexity it carries, the intuitive introvert. According to Jung, this
Speaker 1: personality represents one of the most difficult modes to understand,
Speaker 1: both by others and by oneself. It is not a
Speaker 1: type oriented towards external action, the world of facts, or
Speaker 1: observable emotions. On the contrary, it lives connected to a
Speaker 1: symbolic flow that emerges from the unconscious, guided by inner images, premonitions,
Speaker 1: and archetypal structures that escape common perception. This type does
Speaker 1: not operate from linear logic or empirical observation. Its compass
Speaker 1: is internal. It captures meanings that are not yet formed,
Speaker 1: perceives psychic movements before they become conscious, and is guided
Speaker 1: by a deep sensitivity to the invisible. The concrete world,
Speaker 1: with its practical demands and rational codes, often seems banal
Speaker 1: or irrelevant to it, and not because it is arrogant
Speaker 1: or disinterested, but because its attention is directed towards another dimension,
Speaker 1: a symbolic plane that often anticipates the present time. For
Speaker 1: it facts are shadows of something more essential that is
Speaker 1: still in gestation. Jung described this type as someone who
Speaker 1: perceives what is about to be but is not yet.
Speaker 1: It is a perception oriented towards potential, towards the psychic virtual,
Speaker 1: towards what is forming in the collective unconscious. This way
Speaker 1: of functioning makes the intuitive introvert sensitive to cultural, spiritual,
Speaker 1: and existential transformations that announce themselves before they become visible.
Speaker 1: But this sensitivity, as powerful as it may be, comes
Speaker 1: at a price. It does not operate on the same frequency.
Speaker 1: Society demands proof results, objective data, and what this type perceives,
Speaker 1: by its very nature, is intangible, at least initially. The
Speaker 1: result of this is an abyss between what it sees
Speaker 1: internally and what the world expects from it. Its perceptions
Speaker 1: are often ridiculed, ignored, or pathologized. It is the kind
Speaker 1: of person who intuits something essential about someone they have
Speaker 1: just met, who feels ruptures in the air before events occur,
Speaker 1: whose senses outcomes long before the facts are confirmed. But
Speaker 1: when it tries to communicate this, it almost always encounters
Speaker 1: silence or rejection. Over time, it learns to remain silent
Speaker 1: to keep its inner world as a private and impenetrable space,
Speaker 1: and it is precisely in this silence that the true
Speaker 1: danger begins to clear warning. When this type does not
Speaker 1: find ways to translate its visions into language, art, or
Speaker 1: concrete action, it risks being consumed by them. The inner world,
Speaker 1: which should be a source of revelation, becomes a prison.
Speaker 1: Symbolic images, when not integrated into consciousness, begin to dominate
Speaker 1: the psyche with an autonomous force, and the subject ceases
Speaker 1: to be the one who contemplates. They become the one
Speaker 1: who is possessed by the images. It is here that
Speaker 1: Jung's dark warning takes shape. The gift of deep intuition,
Speaker 1: if not balanced, can turn into a process of dissociation.
Speaker 1: In this video, we will explore this trajectory in detail.
Speaker 1: We will understand how this type functions, what its specific
Speaker 1: dangers are, and above all, what transformative potential it carries
Speaker 1: when it manages to find a path of expression and integration.
Speaker 1: The journey of the intuitive introvert is not easy, but
Speaker 1: it is also not trivial. It is a journey between worlds,
Speaker 1: and understanding this crossing can illuminate not only those who
Speaker 1: live this psychic configuration, but also those who wish to
Speaker 1: comprehend the deeper mysteries of the human soul. In Jung's
Speaker 1: typological system, intuition is considered one of the irrational functions
Speaker 1: of the psyche, that is, a form of perception that
Speaker 1: does not rely on logic or sensory experience. However, in
Speaker 1: the case of the introverted intuitive type, this function takes
Speaker 1: on a deeply internalized direction. Unlike extroverted intuition, which seeks
Speaker 1: possibilities in the external environment, introverted intuition turns inward to
Speaker 1: the depths of the unconscious. It captures not what is visible,
Speaker 1: but what emerges from the more archaic and symbolic layers
Speaker 1: of the psyche, often without war warning, context, or immediate explanation.
Speaker 1: Jung described this function as the ability to perceive raw
Speaker 1: psychic images, symbolic forms that have not yet been transformed
Speaker 1: into thought, feeling, or action. The introverted intuitive type lives
Speaker 1: in constant contact with these images. They do not see
Speaker 1: with the eyes of the body, but with the eyes
Speaker 1: of the soul. What seems like an ordinary situation to
Speaker 1: others may carry hidden meanings, invisible tensions, patterns that repeat silently.
Speaker 1: For them, their mind operates like an antenna turned inward,
Speaker 1: picking up signals that have no language but possess weight,
Speaker 1: form and psychic energy. This sensitivity, when integrated, is a
Speaker 1: powerful source of insight. The introverted intuitive is capable of
Speaker 1: perceiving the deep meaning of events, understanding the unconscious motivations
Speaker 1: of others, and anticipating changes before they become perceptible. However,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, this same sensitivity makes them vulnerable
Speaker 1: to internal dispersion, as the sensation function responsible for maintaining
Speaker 1: contact with the present and the body is often the
Speaker 1: most underdeveloped. In this type, they can easily drift away
Speaker 1: from objective reality. Intuition then begins to function autonomously, disconnected
Speaker 1: from practical experience, and the individual gets lost in an
Speaker 1: ocean of internal images. This inner architecture is not chaotic,
Speaker 1: but it is also not controllable. Symbolic images arise out
Speaker 1: of psychic necessity, not conscious choice. When well directed, these
Speaker 1: visions can become seeds of creation, ideas that transform, symbols
Speaker 1: that heal, narratives that reveal. But if they are not
Speaker 1: understood and processed, they can accumulate as psychic noise, leading
Speaker 1: to confusion, paralysis, and the collapse of rational function. The
Speaker 1: individual then begins to live not in the world, but
Speaker 1: in a kind of self reinforcing parallel reality. For the
Speaker 1: introverted intuitive, understanding the workings of their own intuition is
Speaker 1: the first step to not being enslaved by it. They
Speaker 1: need to learn to distinguish what is a revealing symbol
Speaker 1: from what is baseless fantasy, and this requires time, silence,
Speaker 1: and internal structure. But it also demands a warning. No
Speaker 1: matter how fascinating this internal world may be, it holds traps.
Speaker 1: The next part of the video will specifically address these traps,
Speaker 1: especially the moment when symbolic vision without finding expression begins
Speaker 1: to transform into delusion. If this content is making sense
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Speaker 1: Thank you for your support. Diverted intuition has a characteristic
Speaker 1: that makes it simultaneously fascinating and dangerous. It does not
Speaker 1: operate in the present time. Its nature is directed towards
Speaker 1: what is to come, towards that which is not yet,
Speaker 1: but insinuates itself at the edges of consciousness. The introverted
Speaker 1: intuitive type lives as if inhabiting the threshold between now
Speaker 1: and not yet. They sense the approach of events, perceive
Speaker 1: archetypal changes in the psychic and cultural fabric before they
Speaker 1: manifest in concrete form. This capacity for anticipation makes them,
Speaker 1: in Jung's words, akin to a prophet, someone who sees
Speaker 1: what others cannot yet see. But there is a fundamental
Speaker 1: dilemma in this position. What is seen cannot be proven,
Speaker 1: what is felt cannot be justified with facts, and what
Speaker 1: is intuited rarely finds resonance in others. This creates a
Speaker 1: constant conflict between the inner clarity of vision and the
Speaker 1: lack of external recognition. The introverted intuitive begins to doubt themselves,
Speaker 1: or else takes refuge in their perception with such absolute
Speaker 1: conviction that they reject the world around them. In both cases,
Speaker 1: the tension between the perceived invisible and the denied visible
Speaker 1: begins to corrode the psyche. One of the most powerful
Speaker 1: examples cited by Jung is that of a patient who described,
Speaker 1: during the analytical process, the image of a black snake
Speaker 1: lodged in her abdomen. As the treatment progressed, this snake
Speaker 1: began to rise within her body until it emerged from
Speaker 1: her mouth and transformed into a serpent with a golden head.
Speaker 1: For many, this would seem like a delirious fantasy, but
Speaker 1: Jung interpreted the image as a clear symbol of inner transformation,
Speaker 1: a process of individuation taking visual form through the unconscious.
Speaker 1: The black snake represented the repressed content that, when integrated,
Speaker 1: was reborn as a symbol of healing. This example accurately
Speaker 1: illustrates the functioning of introverted intuition. It does not speak
Speaker 1: with logic, but with images. It does not point to causes,
Speaker 1: but reveals destinies. The problem arises when these images do
Speaker 1: not find an external language, when the symbol is not
Speaker 1: translated into creation, reflection, or action. At this point, the vision,
Speaker 1: once revealing, begins to close in on itself. The mind
Speaker 1: loses the ability to distinguish what is insight from what
Speaker 1: is illusion, and what was symbolic wisdom becomes solitary delirium.
Speaker 1: The boundary between revelation and delirium is extremely subtle, and
Speaker 1: the introverted intuitive walks upon it every day. In order
Speaker 1: for intuition not to turn into a psychic labyrinth, it
Speaker 1: is essential to understand which mechanisms can lead to a
Speaker 1: rupture with reality. In the next part, we will explore
Speaker 1: exactly this process, the moment when the symbol, by not
Speaker 1: being expressed, begins to dominate the subject completely, leading to
Speaker 1: archetypal inflation and the loss of the sense of reality.
Speaker 1: The intuitive introverted type is by nature a solitary individual,
Speaker 1: not by preference, but by psychic structure. Their attention is
Speaker 1: directed towards what cannot be seen, towards what has not
Speaker 1: yet taken shape, towards that which emerges from the unconscious
Speaker 1: in symbols, visions, and premonitions. However, this inner orientation, when
Speaker 1: it does not find a means of expression or mediation
Speaker 1: with the external world, creates a fertile space for identity
Speaker 1: crises and, in more extreme cases, for delusions of grandeur.
Speaker 1: Jung called this process inflatio, the moment when the ego
Speaker 1: is inflated by unconscious contents and begins to identify with
Speaker 1: powerful archetypes without perceiving its limits. This phenomenon occurs subtly.
Speaker 1: The intuitive introverted individual, by perceiving deep symbolic patterns, may
Speaker 1: begin to believe that they have been chosen for a
Speaker 1: special mission. This sense of uniqueness, although initially legitimate as
Speaker 1: a reflection of their sensitivity, can transform into a messianic illusion.
Speaker 1: The individual starts to see themselves as a bearer of
Speaker 1: absolute truths, an unrecognized visionary, a prophet rejected by a
Speaker 1: blind society. Criticism from others is interpreted as persecution. Doubt
Speaker 1: is seen as a sign of others inferiority. Isolation deepens
Speaker 1: not as a consequence, but as a justification. No one
Speaker 1: understands me because I am more evolved. This type of
Speaker 1: psychic inflation is dangerous because it dissolves self criticism. The
Speaker 1: individual begins to live within their own symbolic narrative, with
Speaker 1: no clear distinction between what is archetypal content and what
Speaker 1: is concrete reality. They identify with images from the unconscious,
Speaker 1: the wise one, the martyr, the prophet, and lose contact
Speaker 1: with their ordinary humanity. This over identification with archetypes leads
Speaker 1: to psychic fragmentation. The intuitive function, which once offered glimpses
Speaker 1: of meaning, transforms into a vehicle of escape. Practical life
Speaker 1: is neglected. Relationships become merely instrumental, and any contradiction is
Speaker 1: rejected as a threat to the inner vision. Jung observed
Speaker 1: that this pattern was common in personalities that emotionally isolated
Speaker 1: themselves and resisted any form of adaptation to the world.
Speaker 1: The greater danger, according to him, was not the isolation itself,
Speaker 1: but what came afterward, the complete colonization of consciousness by
Speaker 1: the unconscious. When this happens, the ego ceases to mediate
Speaker 1: reality and becomes merely a passive receptacle of symbolic images.
Speaker 1: Perception becomes distorted, judgment is contaminated, and existence begins to
Speaker 1: move in a subtly delirious fantasy realm where everything seems
Speaker 1: to make sense but nothing is rooted in the real. Still,
Speaker 1: not every contact with the symbol leads to collapse. There
Speaker 1: is an antidote, and it begins with the capacity for expression,
Speaker 1: the ability to translate the invisible into form, word, gesture,
Speaker 1: or art. When the symbolic vision finds a way to
Speaker 1: exit the private sphere and manifest in the world, it
Speaker 1: transforms from prison into creation. In the next part we
Speaker 1: will see just that. How intuitive figures who manage to
Speaker 1: channel their visions, like Kafka, van Goh and Jung himself,
Speaker 1: transformed their internal perceptions into works that altered collective consciousness.
Speaker 1: The psychic survival of the intuitive introverted type largely depends
Speaker 1: on their ability to transform the invisible into form. For Jung,
Speaker 1: the unexpressed symbol tends to become an autonomous agent within
Speaker 1: the psyche, acting as a foreign body that has not
Speaker 1: been digested by consciousness. The only way to integrate these
Speaker 1: internal images is by offering them a contour in the
Speaker 1: external world. Symbolic expression, whether through art, writing, music, or rituals,
Speaker 1: is not an esthetic luxury. It is a vital necessity.
Speaker 1: This process of translating the symbol into the real is
Speaker 1: what differentiates the creative visionary from the fragmented mystic. When
Speaker 1: the intuitive introverted type finds a way to externalize their perceptions,
Speaker 1: they transform their symbolic solitude into communication, their strangeness into language,
Speaker 1: their isolation into impact. What was an internal labyrinth becomes
Speaker 1: a sharable map, and this act of creation has a
Speaker 1: dual effect. It not only relieves internal psychic tension, but
Speaker 1: also offers the collective access to contents that were previously
Speaker 1: only in the unconscious. History is full of examples of
Speaker 1: figures who most likely operated from this intuitive introverted function.
Speaker 1: Franz Kafka, with his labyrinthine and dreamlike texts, channeled his
Speaker 1: symbolic alienation into works that still capture the absurdity of
Speaker 1: modern existence. Vincent van Goh, unable to adapt to the
Speaker 1: practical world, poured his emotional and symbolic vision into explosive brushstrokes,
Speaker 1: each painting a desperate attempt to translate a boiling soul.
Speaker 1: Even Jung, who recognized this type in himself, wrote his
Speaker 1: deepest works as attempts to translate complex internal experiences into
Speaker 1: comprehensible systems. But it is not just about genius or talent.
Speaker 1: What these examples show is that symbolic expression is the
Speaker 1: bridge between the inner world and the outer world. When
Speaker 1: this bridge does not exist, the symbol accumulates, closes in
Speaker 1: on itself and begins to distort the perception of reality.
Speaker 1: But when there is a way out, the inner image
Speaker 1: becomes work gesture word, and this reorganizes the psyche. The
Speaker 1: intuitive function ceases to operate in the dark and begins
Speaker 1: to collaborate with consciousness. Creativity, then, is not just a gift.
Speaker 1: It is a process of psychological integration. However, even the
Speaker 1: richest symbolic expression may not be enough if there is
Speaker 1: no routing in the real. The intuitive introverted type, by
Speaker 1: their structure, tends to neglect the body, routine and concrete limits,
Speaker 1: and this exposes them to new risks. Creation can become compulsion,
Speaker 1: inspiration can turn into escape. True integration only happens when
Speaker 1: the symbol also finds a sensory basis, when intuition is
Speaker 1: balanced by sensation. In the next part, we will explore
Speaker 1: this fundamental aspect how simple practices connected to the body
Speaker 1: and the earth can serve as an antidote against psychic dissolution.
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Speaker 1: intuitive function, especially in its introverted form, operates outside of time,
Speaker 1: the body, and linearity. It dives into the unconscious, gathers
Speaker 1: symbols and premonitions, and returns to the surface carrying visions
Speaker 1: that do not belong to the concrete world. This ability
Speaker 1: is what gives the introverted intuitive type its enigmatic brilliance,
Speaker 1: but it is also what weakens it. Without an anchor.
Speaker 1: Without a solid foundation in the present, this intuition risks
Speaker 1: becoming a whirlpool, and that is why Jung emphasized the
Speaker 1: importance of integrating the inferior function sensation. Sensation is the
Speaker 1: function responsible for keeping us connected to the now, to
Speaker 1: the body, to the material world. It perceives what is tangible,
Speaker 1: the warmth of the sun on the skin, the bitter
Speaker 1: taste of coffee, the weight of an object in the hands.
Speaker 1: For the introverted intuitive, who tends to neglect these perceptions
Speaker 1: as mundane or irrelevant, sensation seems almost like a foreign language.
Speaker 1: But it is precisely this language that can provide the
Speaker 1: antidote to excessive abstraction. It is in the materiality of
Speaker 1: simple things that this type can find balance. In walking, cooking,
Speaker 1: tending to plants, practicing a manual craft, or simply maintaining
Speaker 1: a routine. The return to the body, to routine and
Speaker 1: to the present time does not deny symbolic depth, it
Speaker 1: sustains it. When the type manages to alternate between intuitive
Speaker 1: diving and concrete practice, their visions cease to be labyrinths
Speaker 1: and become root. They become capable of moving between worlds.
Speaker 1: The internal and the external, the invisible and the tangible.
Speaker 1: This transit is what characterizes true psychic maturity. The symbol
Speaker 1: then ceases to be an object of passive contemplation and
Speaker 1: transforms into a real, guiding force that shapes life, decisions
Speaker 1: and relationships, not as an oracle, but as a compass.
Speaker 1: Everyday rituals assume, in this context a therapeutic function. They
Speaker 1: do not need to be grand or esoteric. They can
Speaker 1: be as simple as lighting a candle at dawn, writing
Speaker 1: in a notebook at the end of the day, or
Speaker 1: intentionally organizing a workspace. These small acts create an axis
Speaker 1: in the internal chaos. They are gestures that tell the
Speaker 1: unconscious there is order, there is body, there is reality.
Speaker 1: And it is in this ritualized space that the symbol
Speaker 1: can descend to Earth without exploding the psyche. The integration
Speaker 1: of sensation is not a limitation. It is what allows
Speaker 1: intuition to flourish more strongly. But even when there is
Speaker 1: symbolic expression and anchoring in the real, the introverted intuitive
Speaker 1: type faces a final challenge living their truth in a
Speaker 1: world that generally rejects everything that cannot be measured, explained
Speaker 1: or monetized. How to sustain their vision in an environment
Speaker 1: dominated by logic, productivity and immediacy. How to continue listening
Speaker 1: to internal symbols when the external world demands obedience to
Speaker 1: the concrete. This is the final clash, and it will
Speaker 1: be the theme of the last part of this video.
Speaker 1: Even when the intuitive introverted type develops means of symbolic
Speaker 1: expression and builds practices of anchoring in reality, they still
Speaker 1: face an obstacle that few perceive and which may be
Speaker 1: the hardest of all, sustaining their own inner truth in
Speaker 1: a world that systematically rejects the invisible. Modern culture focused
Speaker 1: on the concrete, the immediate, and the measurable values objective results,
Speaker 1: statistical data, productivity, and visible performance. Deep intuitions, symbolic visions,
Speaker 1: and silent reflections are not only ignored, they are often ridiculed, pathologized,
Speaker 1: or dismissed as irrelevant. For the intuitive introverted individual, this
Speaker 1: creates a constant tension between fidelity to their own soul
Speaker 1: and the need to adapt. At every moment, they find
Speaker 1: themselves faced with a choice betray their inner vision to
Speaker 1: fit into the collective discourse, or remain true to themselves,
Speaker 1: even if it means marginalization, misunderstanding, and loneliness. And this
Speaker 1: choice is not theoretical. It presents itself in the details
Speaker 1: of everyday life, in conversations where they need to silence
Speaker 1: what they truly think, in environments where their silence is
Speaker 1: interpreted as weakness, in jobs where they cannot express what
Speaker 1: they see, feel, or sense under the threat of being
Speaker 1: considered inappropriate. But this tension does not have to lead
Speaker 1: to resignation. Jung argued that the process of individuation requires
Speaker 1: exactly this, sustaining the symbolic core of the self, even
Speaker 1: amidst the opposing forces of collectivity. Living one symbolic truth
Speaker 1: for the intuitive introverted individual is not withdrawing from the world.
Speaker 1: It is navigating through it without losing the internal axis.
Speaker 1: It is knowing that the vision they carry may never
Speaker 1: be fully recognized, yet still needs to be lived, because
Speaker 1: in the end, the function of intuition is not to please, convince,
Speaker 1: or win. It is to point to paths that do
Speaker 1: not yet exist. Living symbolically in a materialistic society is
Speaker 1: a silent act of resistance. It is choosing depth over appearance,
Speaker 1: meaning over convenience. It is sustaining a connection with the invisible,
Speaker 1: even when everything around says it has no value. But
Speaker 1: this type, when they find the courage to remain true
Speaker 1: to what they see, becomes a transformative figure, not by
Speaker 1: imposing themselves on the world, but by revealing with their
Speaker 1: presence that there is something beyond the surface. And this revelation,
Speaker 1: no matter how subtle, has the power to touch, disturb,
Speaker 1: and inspire those who are ready to perceive.