Intuition

Intuition in Jung‘s technical typology is one of the four psychological functions — thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition — and stands with sensation on the axis of perception, as opposed to judgment. Where sensation registers what is actually present, intuition registers what the present implies, anticipates, or coils within itself as unrealized possibility.

Jung classes intuition as an irrational function in the technical sense — it operates by direct perception rather than by reasoned derivation — and distinguishes introverted from extraverted intuition: the former perceives inner possibilities, the unfolding of the archetypal image or the coming-to-be of the inner situation; the latter perceives external possibilities, the future implicit in the present situation, the new thing about to appear. The intuitive type is characteristically attuned to beginnings and transitions, sometimes at the cost of the actual present that sensation registers. See psychological-functions and jung-psychological-types.

Relationships

• psychological-functions
• jung-psychological-types
• inferior-function