Carl Jung and Personality Types

4 Functional TypesFirst published in Jung’s 1921 book Psychological

Types

Dichotomies

Extraversion (E) – (I) Introversion

Sensing (S) – (N) Intuiting

Thinking (T) – (F) Feeling

Judging (J) – (P) Perceiving*

* Judging and Perceiving are categories added by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers in the MBTI, first published in 1956, to note how the type interacts with the external world.

Are you primarily an introvert or extrovert?

The 1st letter of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator showswhether you are primarily an introvert or extrovert.

For Example:

INFJ

Introvert Extrovert

ENFJ

Introvert & Extrovert

• Test researchers have found that about 75% of the population is extroverted.

Extrovert & Introvert

• Extrovert: Prefers the external world of things, people, & activities.

• Introvert: Prefers the internal world of thoughts, feelings, fantasies, & dreams.

Extrovert & Introvert

• Terms often confused with with sociability & shyness, partially because Extroverts tend to be

sociable Introverts tend to be shy

• However, this definition is inadequate.

What is your dominantFunctional Type?

Your dominant Functional Type is indicated by the2nd letter of your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

For Example:

ISFJIntuiting Sensing

INFJ

This pair indicate how you prefer to gather information.

Sensing

• Prefers looking, listening, and getting to know the world through the senses.

• Jung called this one of the irrational functions, meaning that it involved perception rather than judging of information.

Sensing

• About 75% of the population have a Sensing Functional Type.

Intuiting

• Prefers a kind of perception that works outside of the usual conscious processes.

• It is irrational or perceptual, like Sensing—but comes from the complex integration of large amounts of information, rather than simple seeing or hearing.

• Jung said it was like seeing around corners.

Intuiting

• About 25% of the population have an Intuiting Functional Type.

What is your secondary Functional Type?

Your secondary Functional Types is indicated by the3rd letter of your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

For Example:

INTJFeeling Thinking

INFJ

This pair indicate how you prefer to make decisions.

Thinking

• Prefers evaluating information or ideas rationally, logically.

• Jung called this a rational function, meaning that it involves decision making or judging, rather than simple intake of information.

Thinking

• About 2/3rd of men have a Thinking Functional Type.

• About 1/3rd of women have a Thinking Functional Type.

Feeling

• Prefers evaluating information by weighing one's overall, emotional response.

• Jung calls it rational because, like Thinking, it involves decision making or judging, rather than simply taking in information as with Sensing.

Feeling

• About 1/3rd of men have a Feeling Functional Type.

• About 2/3rd of women have a Feeling Functional Type.

What is your preferred lifestyle?

Your general preference for Judging or Perceiving isIndicated by the 4th letter of your MBTI.

For Example:

INTP

Judging Perceiving

INFJ

Judging vs. PerceivingTwenty years after Carl Jung published Personality Types in 1921, mother-daughter psychologist team Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs added another dimension to Jung's typological model by suggesting that people also have a preference for using either the •judging function (thinking or feeling) or their •perceiving function (sensing or intuition)

when relating to the outside world (extraversion).

Judging

Myers and Briggs theorized that types with a preference for judging show the world their preferred judging function (thinking or feeling).

Thus, •TJ types tend to appear to the world as logical. •FJ types tend to appear to the world as empathetic.

According to Myers, judging types like to "have matters settled".

Perceiving

Those types who prefer perception show the world their preferred perceiving function (sensing or intuition).

Thus, •SP types tend to appear to the world as concrete.•NP types tend to appear to the world as abstract.

According to Myers, perceptive types prefer to "keep decisions open".