Hi Ted,

As I've just pointed out, Denny is drawing upon his personality type and the common parlance by which particular cognitive processes within it express themselves.

I know that Denny will read this too, so speaking as one who regards you both well, let me put it this way. When someone gets caught up in a belief in his own uniqueness -- and no one is more prone to that than ENFPs and ENTPs -- then is ironically when his art becomes the most imitative and even cliche. (In true ENFP fashion, I've been there, done that, got the T-shirt and the sports cap and even the plastic trumpet for "blowing my own horn".) Or it can go to the other extreme and become contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian. Only when one forgets about trying to be unique for the sake of uniquity (or contrarian for the sake of being contrarian) and seeks rather to communicate with his audience for their own welfare -- which is the real function of poetry -- can his art advance to its full potential.

There are reasons why I write so little truly original poetry here these days. Unless I can get into the frame of mind I've just stated, I can't write anything worth reading, and I know it. Parody for the sake of expressing an opinion (or just for comic relief) is usually the best I can manage.

The disciples of Jung and his heirs would find this BBS fascinating, no doubt about it. I only know enough to be dangerous about the Jungian schools of thought, but the more I learn the more I see the interplays of temperament, interactive style and cognitive dynamics in action here.

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