Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6

Psychological Types

C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780691018133, 9780691097701
• eBook ISBN: 9781400850860
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it "the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology," and in his autobiography he wrote: "This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle."


In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, "friend and foe alike," and from an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology.

INDEX

A

abaissement du niveau mental, 123, 451

Abegg, Emil, 209n

Abelard, Peter, 39, 46–52, 63–64, 320

abstract, as idea, 411

abstracting: attitude of consciousness, and introvert, 91–93, 149, 184, 292–93

—, Buddhist, 294

type, 295–97

abstraction, 29, 409–11 (Def.)

from object in introvert, 48, 149, 292–95, 297, 325, 330

Worringer’s concept, 289, 291–94, 504–6

Acta Sanctorum, 547

activity, and character, 148–49

Adam, 22

adaptation, 18, 158–59, 279, 285, 378, 420

and adjustment, 334f

as aim, 449

collective, 100, 298

by differentiated function, 106, 206, 330, 518, 536, 540

of extravert, 334–35

failure of, 471

individual systems of, 531

to inner world, 185, 442

by intuition, 145, 366

passive, 252

phylogenetic attempts at, 304

rapid, 275, 280

to reality/object, 63, 119, 145, 167, 185, 206, 252, 442

religion as, 185

adjustment, 334f

Adler, Alfred, 360, 379, 418–19, 422, 459, 502, 508–9

“guiding fiction” concept, 297, 418

theory contrasted with Freud’s, 60–62

aesthetic: attitude, see attitude s.v.; condition, 137&n, 128

mood, 122–23, 127

types, 145, 151&n

aestheticism, 121&n, 141&n, 142–43

aesthetics, 140, 289–99, 505

and empathy, 289–92

affect (s), 239, 269, 274, 411–12 (Def.), 513–14

control of, 149

deliverance from, 199

differentiated, 159

and feeling, 462

inferiority of, 239, 273, 573

as instinctive process, 112, 144, 451

origin of, 471

Schiller on, 98, 101

symptom of disharmony,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Editorial Note
• Contents
• Foreword to the First Swiss Edition
• Foreword to the Argentine Edition
• Introduction
• I. The Problem of Types in the History of Classical and Medieval Thought
• II. Schiller’s Ideas on the Type Problem
• III. The Apollinian and the Dionysian
• IV. The Type Problem in Human Character
• V. The Type Problem in Poetry
• VI. The Type Problem in Psychopathology
• VII. The Type Problem in Aesthetics
• VIII. The Type Problem in Modern Philosophy
• IX. The Type Problem in Biography
• X. General Description of the Types
• XI. Definitions
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Four Papers on Psychological Typology
• Table: Correlation of Paragraph Numbers
• Bibliography
• Index
• Footnotes