Personality types: Jung's model of typology - Inner City Books

Introduction to Jungian Typology 21as we will see later in detailed descriptions of the types, eitherintuition or sensation, both being irrational functions of perception,would be very helpful to the rational judgments ofthe thinking function.It is equally true in practice that sensation is bolstered bythe auxiliary function of thinking or feeling, feeling is aidedby sensation or intuition, and intuition by feeling or thinking.The resulting combinations present the familiar picture of, forinstance, practical thinking allied with sensation, speculativethinking forging ahead with intuition, artistic intuition selectingand presenting its images with the help of feeling-values,philosophical intuition systematizing its vision into comprehensivethought by means of a powerful intellect, and soon. 12The Inferior FunctionAs already mentioned, those functions other than the one mostdominant, most preferred, are relatively inferior.In all cases, there is one function which particularly resistsintegration into consciousness. This is called the inferior function,or sometimes, to distinguish it from the other inferiorfunctions, "the fourth function.""The essence of the inferior function," writes Jung, "isautonomy: it is independent, it attacks, it fascinates and sospins us about that we are no longer masters of ourselves andcan no longer rightly distinguish between ourselves and others."13Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung's close colleague and collaboratorfor many years, points out that one of the great prob-12 Ibid., par. 669.13 Two Essays, par. 85.