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Feeling
Feeling is the Jungian function that evaluates experience by assigning value: acceptable or unacceptable, important or unimportant, welcomed or rejected.
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Concepts
Explore the central ideas of Jungian and analytical psychology.
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Thinking
Thinking is the Jungian function that evaluates experience through concepts, logical relationships, and judgments about what something means.
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Introversion
Introversion is a Jungian attitude in which conscious energy and motivation give greater priority to the subject’s inner impressions, ideas, and standpoint.
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Extraversion
Extraversion is a Jungian attitude in which conscious energy and motivation give greater priority to external people, events, objects, and shared conditions.
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Psychological Types
Jung’s psychological types combine two attitudes—introversion and extraversion—with four functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition.
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Animus
Animus is Jung’s historical term for an inner masculine archetypal figure in a woman, associated with opinion, agency, meaning, and mediation between consciousness and the unconscious.
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Synchronicity
Synchronicity is Jung’s term for a meaningful coincidence between an inner psychological state and an external event when no adequate causal connection is apparent.
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Anima
Anima is Jung’s historical term for an inner feminine archetypal figure in a man, associated with feeling, relationship, imagery, and mediation between consciousness and the unconscious.
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Projection
Projection is the largely unconscious process of experiencing one’s own psychological content as if it belonged primarily or entirely to another person, group, or object.
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Self
The Self is Jung’s concept of the whole psyche—conscious and unconscious—and the archetypal principle of its organization, development, and potential integration.