Psychological Type
Dr. Jung defines two basic tendencies in a person: being ‘introverted’ and ‘extroverted’.

Extroverts focus their interest and energy on the outside world. They seek happiness and vigor in elements within the outside world, instead of within themselves. They cannot keep still, are good team workers and want to maintain a constantly busy daily life. They spread life, excitement and pleasure to their surroundings. Introverts on the other hand, seek their life force and foundations from elements within themselves. They prefer intense and focused relationships and events. Introverts are cautious, attentive and thoughtful.

In addition to these tendencies, Dr. Jung theorizes that the human brain takes in the information through four different channels and he classifies people according to these four functions. There are the four ego faculties:

Sensation (Feeling with the five senses): This is the function that leads an individual to comprehend their experiences through their senses. It helps an individual focus on details of what is happening in their surroundings. Sensation types are pleased in environments containing traditional and familiar elements. They have a realistic stance in life.

Thinking: It is placing what we have thought to be true in our own reality. This is a function that values rational decision making as a result of analytical and objective assessments of situations and happenings. The logical, realistic, honest, just and at times critical thinking of this individual allows them to evaluate the situations in a relaxed manner.

Feeling: We accept or deny information with our feelings. This is a function that enables an individual to evaluate and make decisions based on subjective analysis and empathy. It leads the individual to form healthy relationships and allows them to be sympathetic to the people around them. Feeling types are idealists in many fields and have very strong morals.

Intuition: We understand where situation have derived from and where they are headed with our intuitions. This is a function that enables the individual to understand the flow of life by making hypothesis and forming certain relationship patterns. Intuitive types evaluate the information given and inventively try to connect and see the events from a very different perspective. They strive for intense experiences, adventures and continual change in their life.

These four functions are divided into two groups

• The ones who are rational as a result of trusting judgments: Thinking- differentiates right from wrong and Feeling- tells us what is desirable or not.
• The ones who are irrational given that their perception is not based on observation: Feeling with the five senses- only takes visible aspects into account. Intuitions- as Jolande Jacobi says, it only sees the possibilities.

Everyone has all four functions, yet with experience we come to prioritize one of them. For example, all families begin to impose a certain perception and judgment to children at an early age. In time this function crystallizes and becomes dominant, while the other side of the spectrum falls weak.

The individual shown as an example to the side has a strong feeling function, as a result the opposing end, thinking, is weak. This does not mean that this person does not think or is not intelligent. It only means that they can not use the thinking function in the most clear and effective manner.

Our dominant function is the one in our conscience, used by our ego to organize our conscience. Our conscience can always control our other functions; however our weak function will always be under the rule of our subconscious. In practicality it is common to control one or two, yet rare to control a third one as well. The weak function is generally reflected childishly, primitively and obsessively onto daily life. At the most unexpected moment you may have to deal with whims from an individual, and see that that person’s weak function has surfaced.