In what follows, I will be preoccupied with tracing the theoretical development of Jung& amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp #39 s thesis on the collective unconscious, with a special emphasis on the archetypes, and hence pointing out the metaphysical implications of his thought. Jung vacillated between viewing archetypes as analogous to primordial images and ideas inherited from our ancestral past, formal a priori categories of mind, cosmic projections, emotional and valuational agencies, and numinous mystical experience, but the question remains whether a ‘suprapersonal’ or ‘transubjective’ psyche exists. All these disciplines attempt to give meaningful order to what may appear at times to be a chaotic human existence, as does Jung’s typology.ĭespite it being the focal point of his theoretical system, I argue that Jung& amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp #39 s notion of the archetypes is one of his least understood concepts because it was nebulous to Jung himself. The material I will use to justify my claims comes from three time-honored traditions: Sacred Geometry as practiced by the ancient Egyptians, the inner structure of the I Ching, and the house arrangement of Astrology. ![]() But why did he choose just four psychological types? And of all the multitude of possible personality characteristics or modes of operation and approaches to life, why did he choose these four: intuition, sensation, thinking, and feeling? In this paper, I will attempt to demonstrate that all these choices were deliberate, conscious decisions based on Jung’s understanding of universal laws as they affect the nature of the human condition, and further that these choices represent a cyclic process and not just static, arbitrary conditions. ![]() Anyone who has studied the psychology of Carl Jung will be aware of his development of a system to differentiate the human psychological condition into four fundamental psychological “types:” intuition, thinking, sensation, and feeling – which is a further elaboration of his separation of personalities into two distinct attitudinal types: introvert and extrovert.
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