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Psychological Types
Psychological Types
Psychological Types (CW 6) systematizes the typology Jung first diagrammed in the 1925 seminar’s reading of The Red Book: two attitudes (introversion and extraversion) and four functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition). The work’s contribution to the tradition is not a typology-as-taxonomy; it is the articulation of how the ego’s identification with a differentiated function produces a “secondary character” that alienates the person from their original nature, driving the undifferentiated functions into the unconscious.
Jung is explicit that the typed personality is a stage, not a destination: “Identification then leads to the formation of a secondary character, the individual identifying with his best developed function to such an extent that he alienates himself very largely or even entirely from his original character, with the result that his true individuality … falls into the unconscious. This is nearly always the rule with people who have one highly differentiated function. It is, in fact, a necessary transitional stage on the way to” individuation (Jung 1921).
The book is load-bearing for later developmental and typological elaborations — notably the eight-function model taken up by Beebe — but its Seba-relevant claim is prior to any of them: the persona-bound type disowns what individuation must reclaim.