Jung's Psychological Types
Function | ILE | ESI |
---|---|---|
Dominant | Extraverted intuition | Introverted feeling |
Auxiliary | Introverted thinking | Extraverted sensation |
Tertiary | Extroverted feeling | Introverted intuition |
Inferior | Introverted sensation | Extraverted thinking |
Carl Jung describes four psychological functions that are capable of becoming conscious, but to differing degrees in specific individuals:
- Sensation - all perceptions by means of the sense organs
- Intuition - perception by way of the unconscious, or perception of unconscious events
- Thinking (in socionics, logic) - interpretation of information based on whether it is correct or incorrect
- Feeling (in socionics, ethics) - interpretation of information based on its ethical aspects
In addition to these four types, Jung defines a polarity between introverted and extraverted personalities. This distinction is based on how people invest energy rather into the inner, subjective, psychical world (usually called Seele, soul, by Jung) or instead the outer, objective, physical world (including one's body).
By Jung's rules 16 psychological types exist. But in his book "Psychological Types" he described in detail only 8 types, distinguished by the eight possible dominant functions.
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