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

Extraversion and the Four Functions 59what is going on behind the scenes, under the surface; it "seesthrough" the outer layer. Where the comparatively mundaneperception of the sensation type sees "a thing" or "a person,"the intuitive sees its soul.When intuition is dominant, thinking and feeling will bemore or less repressed, while sensation—the other irrationalfunction, but attuned to physical reality—is most inaccessibleto consciousness.Sensation is a hindrance to clear, unbiased, naive perception;its intrusive sensory stimuli direct attention to the physicalsurface, to the very things round and beyond which intuitiontries to peer. ... [The intuitive] does have sensations, of course,but he is not guided by them as such; he uses them merely asstarting-points for his perceptions. 68Where extraverted sensation seeks the highest pitch ofphysical realism, extraverted intuition strives to apprehend thewidest range of possibilities inherent in the objective situation.To the former, an object is simply an object; the lattergoes right past its outer appearance and fastens on what couldbe done with it, how it might be used.68 Ibid., par. 611.