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Jung categorized three tiers of extravert (and introvert): Now, when orientation [one's conscious focus] by the object [substance disconnected from the self, i.e. material objects, others, experiences] predominates in such a way that decisions and actions are determined not by subjective views [i.e. interior focus, subjective experiences] but by objective conditions we speak of an extraverted attitude. When this is habitual, we speak of an extraverted type. If a man thinks, feels, acts, and actually lives in a way that is directly correlated with the objective conditions and their demands, he is extraverted. His life makes it perfectly clear that it is the object and not this subjective view that plays the determining role in his consciousness. Naturally he has subjective views too, but their determining value is less than that of the objective conditions. Consequently, he never expects to find any absolute factors in his own inner life, since the only ones he knows are outside himself.

In other words,

Individuals who use extraverted traits some of the time (everyone),

Individuals who naturally or primarily use extraverted traits (i.e. ENTJs dominant function Te or ENFPs dominant function Ne),

Individuals who used extraverted traits all of the time (i.e. the broad societal understanding of "extrovert.")

(These apply to introverts as well, but with opposing expressions.)

The third category is closest to our current cultural conception of "extrovert": loud, gregarious, completely and totally externally focused (compared to inwardly focused), energized by others' company. However, these personality expressions are often a niche representation of the whole. For example, there are plenty of extraverted dominant Types (e.g. ENTJ, ENTP) who might crave solitude or "separateness" from others. To label them "introverts" because they have a lower threshold for human interaction would be erroneous. (There are many introverted types who are more interpersonal than some "extroverts," as well.)

Moreover, Jung and other analysts have noted that the natural expression of the self can be muted or silenced per the societal or interpersonal expectations of one's environment. For some, they might feel a familiarity with expressions or language which align with "introvert" while actually existing as a low-key or solitary (through choice or trauma) Extraverted Type.

January 1996: QUESTION: "What do you think Scully's dog should be named?"

GILLIAN: "There were two names that I came up for it. One was Clyde -- but that's my husband's name, so.... The other was Yappi. [Cheering] Which do you like?"

QUESTION: "I prefer Yappi."

GILLIAN: "You like Yappi? That's the most obvious one, I would have thought."

May 1, 2013: Q: Gillian Anderson, do you have a dog?

GA: You know, buddy, I don't have a dog. I used to have a dog. Oh, Queequeg! You want to know about Queequeg.

GA: Queequeg died, sweetie.

October 12, 2013: everdeer: Don't you guys think Queequeg deserved better?

DavidDuchovny_: Yes.

gilliananderson: No. That dog killed people with its farts and it deserved to die a nasty death in the mouth of that alligator or whatever it was. Ugh. I had to shampoo it, or walk away every few seconds, because these puffs of nastiness kept happening.

DavidDuchovny_: "Puffs of Nastiness" should be your band name.

[Bonus: hilarious double standard-- April 1996: A gunmetal grey trailer home, parked just to the left of the main X-Files set, is Gillian Anderson's sparsely furnished, functional home-from-home. Inside, Cleo, a large, black, slavering hound of undetermined breed is throwing toys from one end of the trailer. And she's farting. "Oh Cleo!" says Gillian. And then to me, "It's the food we're giving her."]

March 22, 2026: Q: Knowing what you know now, what would you tell your past self?

GA: My past self? [Q: Yes.] My younger self? [Q: Yes.] Or myself in a different life? [Crowd laughs.]

Q: Younger self.

2025 transcript bits.

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January 2025 - December 2025

Part XXIX, Gretchen Rubin

Part XXX, Rob Lowe

Part XXXI, Costica Bradatan

Part XXXII, Maggie Wheeler

Part XXXIII, Kara Swisher

Part XXXIV, Kenya Barris

Part XXXV, Peter Singer

Part XXXVI, Jaleel White

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April 14, 2000: Nevertheless, at press time, Twentieth Century Fox and the actor’s lawyers were still negotiating, and getting a straight answer regarding the particulars - well, even Cancer Man couldn’t crack this. “There is a scenario which would bring me back and it’s up to Fox whether they want to meet it,” says Duchovny. That scenario, he adds, has less to do with money than other issues, but he’d happily “bleed the studio for as much as I could get.”

Duchovny, who currently takes home a relatively low $200,000 per episode (ER’s Noah Wyle gets twice that) as well as a cut of the profits is hardly crying poverty. “I’ve been compensated more than an actor should,” he says. “But in the grand scheme of things, if you look at what the show’s made for Fox [which Duchovny’s lawyer estimates at more than $1 billion in profits so far], and you look at people like myself, Gillian, [directors] Rob Bowman and Kim Manners, and [former producers] Glen Morgan and James Wong - people who were instrumental in the success of the show have not been compensated sufficiently.” Duchovny laughs. “It brings up all those 6-year-old issues - you know, It’s not fair! Like I’m yelling at my mom, ‘It’s just not fair!” [...]

“There will have to be some arrangements made to make the show survivable,” says Anderson, referring to the 70-hour weeks demanded of her and her costar. Duchovny suggests that had X-Files creator Chris Carter developed other regulars into main characters, the pressure on them would be less. “It would have been great if Mitch Pileggi [Assistant Director Skinner] had been made into a third lead.” It might have given the series more longevity, he adds, “but no one’s used well on the show, aside form Gillian and I, and sometimes I don’t think *I’m* used well.” [...]

Carter and his executive producer, Frank Spotnitz, are currently in the impossible position of writing the last episode of the season without knowing if it’s also the final chapter of the series. “It’s very frustrating working this way,” says Carter, who adds that although he’s always known how the series will end, he’s unclear as to how he would handle the show if it continued without Duchovny, especially since he and his lead actor are still eager to do a second movie: “I’ve never imagined The X-Files without him.”

Ditto Anderson, who can’t conceive of the “scenario Carter would have to come up with to make it okay and watchable” without Duchovny. “It’s insane the position we’re in right now,” she says. “We’re about to shoot episode 20 out of 22, which means if this is the last season, we have one or two episodes to wrap up *everything*, which is absurd.” Equally absurd, she says, is the notion that Fox would let the last season of their top drama pass without promoting it: “Which leads me to think they have no intention of ending it.” More personally, she’d miss what she calls healthy closure. “I don’t want to let go of seven years and have one episode to mourn it or be mourning in retrospect.”