Susan Cain's Use of Carl Jung's Theories in The Power of Introverts in a Worl That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain, in her book “The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” explores introversion and extroversion and how introverts are powerful in their own way, using their unique way of working together and thinking skills/styles to influence the world around them, using many sources to back up her information and tell her story correctly. One source Cain uses is Carl G. Jung who studied types of behaviors and came up with introversion and extroversion.

Carl G. Jung studied all kinds of people in his line of work and noticed that there are not only individual differences in human psychology, there are also typical differences, and two that stand out are introversion and extroversion (Jung 3). Cain used Jung a few times, both in the first twenty pages, and both times it being a sentence or two out of his book in cain’s own words. Because of this, it is hard to work with this source and to appropriately analyze it using just that one little sample.

Jung’s book that I used as my source to evaluate Cain’s words, “Psychological Types,” relates to the main focus of Cain’s book because the whole book is basically about introversion and extroversion; looking at ways introverts are having an impact on the world even though it has been hard because it’s a “world that can’t stop talking,’ according to Cain’s book title. Jung was a psychologist who studied brain and intro/extroversion and came up with his own definitions that still apply today. Cain uses Jung in the introduction as a way to define the words introversion and extroversion, to set the definition straight for the rest of the book. She writes “introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling… and focus on the meaning they make of the events swirling ar...

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...ghout the rest of the book. On the other hand, if she had misrepresented his words, or meaning, then it disrupts the rest of the book in her meanings and examples that she uses throughout the book. My critical attitude toward the book would be the same. I am not completely sure how correctly Cain used the source, and therefore my criticism would be better known if someone were to explain to me if she used it correctly or not. But based on the definition of both authors that I gave earlier, I would say it is not completely correctly used because the definitions do not completely match, but have some similar word choices in them.

Works Cited

Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 10. Print.

Jung, Carl G. Psychological Types. Princeton N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. 3, 333. Print.