Concepts

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Dominant Function

The dominant function is the psychological function a person uses most habitually and has developed most fully under conscious control.

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Intuition

Intuition is the Jungian function that perceives possibilities, patterns, and implications through unconscious processes rather than direct sensory evidence.

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Sensation

Sensation is the Jungian function that perceives immediate concrete reality through the physical senses and awareness of bodily states.

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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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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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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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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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Psychological Types

Jung’s psychological types combine two attitudes—introversion and extraversion—with four functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition.

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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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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.