Introverted Feeling: The Idealistic Gifts
The depth of this feeling can only be guessed–it can never be clearly grasped. It makes people silent and difficult of access; it shrinks back like a violet from the brute nature of the object in order to fill the depths of the subject. It comes out with negative judgments or assumes an air of […]
Extraverted Feeling: The Social Gifts
A feeling judgment of this kind is not by any means a pretense or a lie, it is simply an act of adjustment. – C. G. Jung In the last four articles, we have covered the four receptive types. Now we turn to what Jung called the “rational” types–rational for they are doing more than simply […]
Extraverted Sensation: The Practical Gifts
To feel the object, to have sensations and if possible to enjoy them–that is his constant aim. — C. G. Jung In the last article, we reviewed the far-seeing and imaginative type, introverted intuition, referring to it as visionary intuition for its ability to apprehend grand visions. In this article, we will review its opposite, […]
Introverted Intuition: The Visionary Gifts
This image fascinates the intuitive activity; it is arrested by it and seeks to explore every detail of it. It holds fast to the vision, observing with the liveliest interest how the picture changes, unfolds, and finally fades. — C. G. Jung In the last article, we reviewed the energetic type, extraverted intuition, referring to […]
Extraverted Intuition: The Catalytic Gifts
Because he is always seeking out new possibilities, stable conditions suffocate him . . . So long as a new possibility is in the offing, the intuitive is bound to it with shackles of fate. — C. G. Jung In the last article, we reviewed the enigmatic type, introverted sensation, referring to […]
Introverted Sensation: The Aesthetic Gifts
Sensation . . . undergoes considerable modification in the introverted attitude . . . How extraordinarily strong the subjective factor can be is shown most clearly in art. — C. G. Jung Jung discerned four functions of consciousness: intuition, sensation, thinking, and feeling. These, as modified by either an introverted or extraverted libido, form his […]
The Shadow Type as a Moral Issue
The unconscious has an inimical or ruthless bearing towards consciousness only when the latter adopts a false or pretentious attitude. — C. G. Jung In Jung’s depth psychology, the shadow looms large. It also plays a very significant “behind the scenes” role in psychological types–Jung’s psychology of consciousness. While the shadow encompasses far more than […]
Couplings
Closer investigation shows with great regularity that, besides the most differentiated function, another, less differentiated function of secondary importance is invariable present in consciousness and exerts a co-determining influence. – C. G. Jung In his important work with psychological types, Jungian analyst John Giannini has emphasized the role of “couplings,” recognizing that no function ever […]
The Potent Dumbling
But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward, not wholly bad. It contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but–convention forbids. – C. G. Jung (CW 11, para 134) The educated man tries to repress the inferior man in himself, not realizing that by so […]
The Knock-down Battle
Usually this first conflict that is aroused between the auxiliary function in the conscious and its opposite function in the unconscious is the fight that takes place in analysis. This may be called the preliminary conflict. The knock-down battle between the superior and inferior functions only takes place in life. – C. G. Jung How […]