Source that Inspired Jung's 4 functions (intuition - sensing & thinking - feeling)

[sindri]

Source that Inspired Jung's 4 functions (intuition - sensing & thinking - feeling)

Arthur Schopenhauer's masterpiece, The World As Will And Idea, was very influential to Carl Jung, and his theory of psychological types. Jung is quoted as saying " It was from Schopenhauer I got the idea that consciousness flows into definite moulds." While you could make a good argument that the basis of extroversion and introversion could be traced back to Kant's phenomenal subject-object relationship, many people do not know the origins of Jung's so called compass of four psychological functions. Here, in Book 1, Section 12 of The World As Will And Idea, you will find one of Jung's key inspirations for his four psychological function.

If you would like more information, this book was written in 1818 and is available for free
The World as Will and Representation/First Book - Wikisource, the free online library

If you are like me and listen to all of your books, there is both a free librivox version
LibriVox
and a much better audible version
https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonficti...f=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1511227637&sr=1-1

 

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

Speaking of the classics few have actually read Jung's Psychological Types

Classics in the History of Psychology -- Jung (1921/1923) Chapter 10

It's quite different from mbti and I loved it as a teen

 

[sindri]

Speaking of the classics few have actually read Jung's Psychological Types

Classics in the History of Psychology -- Jung (1921/1923) Chapter 10

It's quite different from mbti and I loved it as a teen

You know what its not different from? Socioinics

 

[Zeego]

You know what its not different from? Socioinics

Socionics is fine as its own thing, but there's no denying that it's different from Jung's original theory. Just like MBTI, it has 16 types instead of Jung's 8, and many of the ideas central to Socionics (such as the quadras) have no basis in Jung's writings.