The Basic Writings of C. G.
Jung by Carl Jung
(darn - doesn't he know it all?!)
From the standpoint of the rational type, the irrational might easily be represented as a rational of inferior quality; namely, when he is apprehended in the light of what happens to him. For what happens to him is not the accidental -- in that he is master --but, in its stead, he is overtaken by rational judgement and rational aims. This fact is hardly comprehensible to the rational mind, but its unthinkableness merely equals the astonishment of the irrational, when he discovers someone who can set the ideas of reason above the living and actual event. Such a thing seems scarcely credible to him. It is, as a rule, quite hopeless to look to him for any recognition of principles in this direction, since a rational understanding is just as unknown and, in fact, tiresome to him as the idea ofmaking a contract without mutual discussion and obligations appears unthinkable to the rational type. p270 (from Psychological Types).
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