ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the typological reflections on the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The introverted feeling function concerns itself with the values expressed in the archetypal aspect of situations, often relating to the actual situation by measuring it against an ideal. When the actual is found wanting, introverted feeling can become intensely disappointed. It was not hard to see the image of America that triggered the conflagration sweeping over Los Angeles after the acquittal of police charged with using excessive force during their arrest of Rodney King. A black man was supposed to lay face down, his entire body flat against the ground. The extraverted feeling function concerns itself with other people's emotions, especially those that lie on or near the surface and are easy to sympathize with. The result is that extraverted feeling tends to ignore or harshly judge emotional needs that do not validate collective norms.
