Psychological Types
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Psychological Types is the title of the sixth volume in the Princeton / Bollingen edition of the Collected Works of Carl Jung. The original German language edition, "Psychologische Typen", was first published by Rascher Verlag, Zurich in 1921.
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In the book Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function.
Jung proposed that there were four main functions of consciousness:
Two of them being perceiving functions:
And two being judging functions:
The functions are modified by two main attitude types:
Jung theorized that whichever function dominates consciousness its opposite function is repressed and will characterize unconscious behavior.
The eight psychological types are categorized as follows:
- Extraverted Sensation
- Introverted Sensation
- Extraverted Intuition
- Introverted Intuition
- Extraverted Thinking
- Introverted Thinking
- Extraverted Feeling
- Introverted Feeling
This work was succeeded by Eysenck's three factor model, the Big Five personality traits and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
[edit] External links
- Kaleidoscope Forum Jungian Discussion Forum.

