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intent expression. They have a late adolescence, consider the latter part of
life the best, and are future-oriented. The more extreme ectotonics have a
distaste for alcohol and their accentuated consciousness fights alcohol,
drugs, anesthesia and is resistant to hypnosis. When they become troubled
they seek privacy and solitude in order to try to work out the difficulty.
2.4. Jung's Theory of Psychological Types
While typologies of all sorts have existed throughout time the
most influential idea of psychological types originated in the theoretical
work of Carl Jung, published as Psychological Types in 1921. According
to Jung, the conscious psyche is an apparatus for adaptation and
orientation, and consists of a number of different psychic functions.
Among these he distinguishes four basic functions:
• sensing - perception by means of the sense organs;
• intuition - perceiving in unconscious way or perception of
unconscious contents.
• thinking - function of intellectual cognition; the forming of logical
conclusions;
• feeling - function of subjective estimation;
These functions are putted by author in pair accordingly to the
criteria of rationality. Thus, thinking and feeling functions are rational,
while sensing and intuition are nonrational.
Rationality consists of figurative thoughts, feelings or actions
with reason — a point of view based on objective value, which is set by
practical experience.
Non-rationality is not based in reason. Jung notes that elementary
facts are also nonrational, not because they are illogical but because, as
thoughts, they are not judgments.
In a person one function of pair is dominant while other is
auxiliary.
Thinking and feeling
Women use feeling more than thinking, and men use thinking
more than feeling.
This seems to be a general rule, though each of us has both
functions and what function we use most has nothing to do with the
question of intelligence.
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