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Introversion and the Four Functions 79Sensation is an irrational function, because it is oriented notby a logical process of judgment but simply by what is andwhat happens. "Whereas the extraverted sensation type isguided by the intensity of objective influences," notes Jung,"the introverted type is guided by the intensity of the subjectivesensation excited by the objective stimulus." 97The introverted sensation type is like a highly sensitizedphotographic plate. The physical sensitivity to objects andother people takes in every smallest shade and detail—whatthey look like, how they feel to the touch, their taste and smelland the sounds they make. Von Franz writes that she first understoodthis type when Emma Jung gave a paper on introvertedsensation as her own dominant function.When somebody comes into the room, such a type notices theway the person comes in, the hair, the expression on the face,the clothes, and the way the person walks. . . . every detail isabsorbed. The impression comes from the object to the subject;it is as though a stone fell into deep water—the impressionfalls deeper and deeper and sinks in. Outwardly, the introvertedsensation type looks utterly stupid. He just sits andstares, and you do not know what is going on within him. Helooks like a piece of wood with no reaction at all . . . but inwardlythe impression is being absorbed. . . . The quick innerreactions go on underneath, and the outer reaction comes in adelayed way. These are the people who, if told a joke in themorning, will probably laugh at midnight. 98Introverted sensation types, if they are creative artists, havea facility for bringing a scene to life in painting or in writing.Thomas Mann, for instance, in describing every detail of ascene, evokes the whole atmosphere of a room or personality.The French Impressionist painters are also in this group; they97 Ibid., par. 650.98 Jung's Typology, pp. 27f.
80 Introversion and the Four Functionsreproduce exactly the internal impressions stimulated in themby a scene or a person in the real world.That is the difference between extraverted and introvertedsensation. The former, in an artist, would produce a realisticreflection of the object, the latter a faithful rendering of theimpression made by the object on the subject. Jung writes:Introverted sensation apprehends the background of the physicalworld rather than its surface. The decisive thing is not thereality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, ofthe primordial images which, in their totality, constitute a psychicmirror-world. It is a mirror with the peculiar faculty ofreflecting the existing contents of consciousness not in theirknown and customary form, but . . . somewhat as a millionyear-oldconsciousness might see them. . . . Introverted sensationtransmits an image which does not so much reproduce theobject as spread over it the patina of age-old subjective experience. . . . while extraverted sensation seizes on the momentaryexistence of things open to the light of day. 99The subjective factor in sensation is essentially the same asin the other introverted types. It is an unconscious dispositionwhich alters the sense-perception at its source, thus deprivingit of the character of a purely objective influence. Subjectiveperception is oriented to the meaning that adheres to objectsrather than to their inherent physical properties.The introvert's characteristic difficulty in self-expression isalso true of this type. Jung suggests that this conceals the introvertedsensation type's essential irrationality:On the contrary, he may be conspicuous for his calmness andpassivity, or for his rational self-control. This peculiarity,which often leads a superficial judgment astray, is really dueto his unrelatedness to objects. Normally the object is not consciouslydevalued in the least, but its stimulus is removedfrom it and immediately replaced by a subjective reaction no99 Psychological Types, CW 6, par. 649.
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