Jungian Typoloogy

We are taking personality tests in the first part of this journey so that you will know yourself better and many attitudes you may have not been aware of previously will now be conscious.
It's important to understand that a person's psychological make-up is always working on two levels: the conscious and the unconscious. According to Jung, a person's 'psyche' (a person's 'whole being') is represented by their conscious and unconscious parts. A person's conscious and unconscious states are in a way 'self-balancing', that is to say if a person's conscious side (or 'attitude') becomes dominant or extreme, then the unconscious will surface or manifest in some way to correct the balance. This might be in dreams or internal images, or via more physical externally visible illness or emotional disturbance.
We each have a primary way of relating to the world, but if we get too out of balance our unconscious processes will take over and “act out” or manifest in some way, the opposite. People will say, “That was not like her at all.” But it was very much like your secondary functions.
Jung’s complex theory has it, that all of us are made up of different individuals (complexes), that we all have multiply complexes that function like personalities. The only thing that keeps us from being diagnosed as having multiple personality disorder is a greater ability to keep the parts of our personality together.
Jung said that we need a function to tell us what is, and that is sensation. We need a function to give it a name, and that’s thinking. We need a function to tell us what it is worth, and that’s feeling, and we need a function to tell us what its possibilities are, where it is headed, and that’s intuition.
Most Jungian type tests place you on a sliding scale based on how you prefer to use those functions. These are determined by where you land on a scale with two different ways of using a function – one at each end of the scale as shown below. Depending on which side of the center mark you fall your primary type will be determined.

Extravert ___________________|__________________________ Introvert
Feeling _____________________|___________________________ Thinking
Intuition ____________________|__________________________ Sensation

If you are introverted you will tend to withdraw when trying to figure things out, while if you are extroverted you tend to like to “talk things out” with someone you trust. When making value judgments you will either make that judgment based on what is logical (thinking type) or on what “feels right.” (feeling type.) The final scale measures how we gather and organize information. The sensing type will gather information using his or her senses and will use some known structure to organize it, while an intuitive type seems to gather information from out of the air and immediately organizes it holistically by its potential. Your secondary type or “inferior function” will be of the opposite type. We’ll talk more about that in a later section.
Assignment:
Take one of the Jungian type tests available on the internet. Links below:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jungiantypestest.html
http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/

After you have determined your type, journal about how you relate to that information and how you have seen it manifest in your life.
Don’t forget we have discussion session on Wednesday afternoon at 2pm MT at Wiziq.com/Julia-Widdop. If you have not received an invitation to the next class, please call me at 970-462-7132.