Extraverted Feeling in the Shadow II
“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
“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
“. . . 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
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
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 […]