Psychologické typy – Jung Carl Gustav (2020)

Jung's book Psychological Types is sometimes referred to as his most famous work, through which he established himself as an independent psychological thinker. In any case, his description of introverted and extraverted orientations has become the most widely accepted Jungian discovery overall. In his book, he thoroughly examines how these two types of attitudes have been perceived throughout history (linking introversion with medieval nominalism, Nietzsche's Apollonian type, or Alfred Adler's personality, while associating extraversion with realism, the Dionysian type, or Sigmund Freud). Additionally, he describes four possible functions of consciousness – thinking as the opposite of feeling and sensory perception, whose opposite is intuition. Each person has a primary function of consciousness, whose opposite expresses how their unconscious operates. The combination of functions of consciousness with introversion and extraversion gives rise to eight basic psychological types. Jung also describes what happens to a person's psyche when their conscious focus is too one-sided. The book is supplemented with an extensive overview of definitions that can serve as a guide for understanding Jung's core ideas.