Carl Jung had a lot of observations on the subject, which Dr. Stephen Diamond talks about here:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201205/essential-secrets-psychotherapy-jungs-typology-eudaemonology-and-the-elusive-
If you're a musician, especially a songwriter/composer, or an artist or writer, there's a good chance you have wrestled with your own typology. A lot of us are naturally more introverts, but to make a living at what we love to do, we must try to adapt the behavior of an extravert. It can feel like being emotionally strangled at worst, on a good day it can just feel like being on the "wrong" path. It's a double-bind. But it helps, me personally anyway, to know what the underlying cause of the "suffering artist" condition might be from.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201205/essential-secrets-psychotherapy-jungs-typology-eudaemonology-and-the-elusive-
If you're a musician, especially a songwriter/composer, or an artist or writer, there's a good chance you have wrestled with your own typology. A lot of us are naturally more introverts, but to make a living at what we love to do, we must try to adapt the behavior of an extravert. It can feel like being emotionally strangled at worst, on a good day it can just feel like being on the "wrong" path. It's a double-bind. But it helps, me personally anyway, to know what the underlying cause of the "suffering artist" condition might be from.
