Public-Domain Audiobook
Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation
Listen free to the public-domain LibriVox recording of Jung’s major work on introversion, extraversion, psychological functions, and individuation.
About This Recording
Psychological Types is Jung’s sustained examination of recurring differences in orientation and mental function. It introduces the contrast between introversion and extraversion and develops the functions of thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition.
The book is historically important, but it is more complex than modern personality-type summaries suggest. Jung treats types as dynamic preferences within a larger account of psychic development.
Listening Guide
Begin with the chapters on the general description of types, then use the historical chapters for context. Keep a note of places where Jung’s technical use of “type” differs from contemporary personality tests.
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Related Concepts
Psychological Types
Jung’s psychological types combine two attitudes—introversion and extraversion—with four functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition.
Individuation
Individuation is Jung’s term for the lifelong process of becoming a more differentiated and integrated psychological whole.
Introversion
Introversion is a Jungian attitude in which conscious energy and motivation give greater priority to the subject’s inner impressions, ideas, and standpoint.
Extraversion
Extraversion is a Jungian attitude in which conscious energy and motivation give greater priority to external people, events, objects, and shared conditions.
