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:

• Sensation and Intuition

And two being judging functions:

• Thinking and Feeling

The functions are modified by two main attitude types:

• Introversion and Extraversion.

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.