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Lectures on Jung's Typology
Lectures on Jung’s Typology
Lectures on Jung’s Typology is a paired volume gathering Marie-Louise von Franz’s lectures on the inferior-function with James Hillman’s lectures on the feeling-function. Originally delivered in Zurich and first published in 1971, the volume is the principal post-Jungian elaboration of Jung’s typology — the place where the model’s heuristic character, its limits, and its clinical use are most carefully laid out by Jung’s nearest students.
Von Franz’s contribution treats the inferior function as the gateway to the unconscious: the place where typology meets individuation, where the differentiated personality must descend to recover what it has excluded. Her lectures secure typology against its own dogmatism by framing it, after Pauli, as an archetypal model — fruitful when held open, distorting when forced.
Hillman’s contribution on feeling is the most rigorous post-Jungian treatment of the function in print. He performs the etymological work that returns feeling to its tactile root in fol (Teutonic, “palm of the hand”); he distinguishes the function from feelings, from affect, from emotion, from eros, from anima; he names the inferiority confusion by which the feeling function is mistaken for the anima in men. The lecture is the source-text for almost every careful post-Jungian discrimination of the feeling function from its neighbors.
The volume’s standing in the Lineage is settled: it is the second-stratum reading of jung-psychological-types, delivered by the two students best positioned to read Jung from inside.