Jung S Typology In Perspective

Revised and expanded, this new edition is a comprehensive guide that addresses the relationship of type development and personal transformation to the individuation process, the underlying drive toward wholeness; relates the emergence of typology as it occurred in C. G. Jung's own thought; analyzes the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other type inventories as rewarding alternatives or complements to myth, story, and dream analysis; and places typology in perspective to Jung's larger model of human psychology, making all of Jung's work more accessible, practical, and less intimidating.

Revised and expanded, this new edition is a comprehensive guide that addresses the relationship of type development and personal transformation to the individuation process, the underlying drive toward wholeness; relates the emergence of typology as it occurred in C. G. Jung's own thought; analyzes the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other type inventories as rewarding alternatives or complements to myth, story, and dream analysis; and places typology in perspective to Jung's larger model of human psychology, making all of Jung's work more accessible, practical, and less intimidating.

Explains the model of psychological types elaborated by C.G. Jung. -- Back cover.

In this classic work, originally published in 1921, Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function. He proposed four main functions of consciousness: Two perceiving functions: Sensation and Intuition Two judging functions: Thinking and Feeling The functions are modified by two main attitude types: extraversion and introversion. Jung theorized that the dominant function characterizes consciousness, while its opposite is repressed and characterizes unconscious behavior. The eight psychological types are as follows: Extraverted sensation Introverted sensation Extraverted intuition Introverted intuition Extraverted thinking Introverted thinking Extraverted feeling Introverted feeling In "Psychological Types," Jung describes in detail the effects of tensions between the complexes associated with the dominant and inferior differentiating functions in highly and even extremely one-sided types.

In 1915, C.G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to understand and codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. This correspondence, available in English for the first time, reveals Jung fielding keen theoretical challenges form one of his most sensitive and perceptive colleagues.

The world-famous psychiatrist and pioneer of the unconscious, Carl Gustav Jung, never produced a systematic treatment of his own work - he was always moving forward. And so it became the life-task of his assistant-of-many-decades, Carl Alfred Meier, to gather and present in detail the various aspects of his far-reaching discoveries. This final volume of Meier's work addresses the human personality in its encounters between consciousness and the unconscious, a process referred to as individuation. In describing such encounters, the author extensively explains the idea of Jung's psychological types.