Extraverted Sensation in the Shadow

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The unconscious personality can best be described as an extraverted sensation type of a rather low and primitive order. – C.G. Jung   With this article, we continue our series on the “shadow” or “inferior” types. Realistic Sensation Extraverted sensation is the type most fully oriented to what we normally think of as “real”–sensual perception […]

Extraverted Thinking in the Shadow II

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 Although the unconscious thinking is archaic, its reductive tendencies help to compensate the occasional fits of trying to exalt the ego into the subject. If this should nevertheless happen as a result of complete suppression of the counterbalancing subliminal processes, the unconscious thinking goes over into open opposition and gets projected. – C.G. Jung   […]

Extraverted Feeling in the Shadow II

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 “Often he is gauche in his behavior, painfully anxious to escape notice, or else remarkably unconcerned and childishly naive.” – C.G. Jung   In the last article, we reviewed the more primitive attributes of extraverted feling as a shadow type. In this article, we will consider it as a shadow projection, and also in its […]

Extraverted Feeling in the Shadow

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 “Often he is gauche in his behavior, painfully anxious to escape notice, or else remarkably unconcerned and childishly naive.”– C.G. Jung   We know much about the types as they normally function, but how they function as oppositional shadow types is not as well known or understood. A small study group (Gunilla Midbøe, Vanessa Prins, […]

The Shadow Types

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“. . . beneath the neglected functions there lie hidden far higher individual values which . . . are of greatest value for individual life, and therefore vital values that can endow the life of the individual with an intensity and beauty he will vainly seek in his collective function.” — C.G. Jung   With this […]

Extraverted Thinking: The Constructive Gifts

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In its essence this thinking is no less fruitful and creative than introverted thinking, it merely serves other ends. — C. G. Jung  Extraverted thinking is markedly different from introverted thinking, considered in the last article. Introverted thinking is highly conceptual, seeking to clarify an emerging idea. Extraverted thinking is in the world dealing with […]

Introverted Thinking: The Conceptual Gifts

The thinking of the introverted type is positive and synthetic in developing ideas which approximate more and more to the eternal validity of the primordial images. — C. G. Jung  In the last article, we looked at the rational function “feeling” in its introverted mode. With this article, we turn to the other rational function […]

Introverted Feeling: The Idealistic Gifts

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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

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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

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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, […]