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JUNGIAN THEORY EXPLAINED
Processes and Preferences
Your Mental Processes
Everyone uses these four essential mental processes daily in both the external world and the internal world.
- Perceiving processess are (1) Sensing and (2) Intuition
- Judging processess are (1) Thinking and (2) Feeling
According to Jungian theory the external world of people, things and experience is called Extraversion and the internal world of inner processes and reflections Introversion.
Why Are There Differences Between People?
- Jung believed everyone has a natural preference for using one kind of Perceiving and one kind of Judging. He also observed that a person is more drawn toward either the external or internal world
- The variations in what you prefer, use, and develop lead to fundamental differences between people. The resulting predictable patterns of behaviour form the basis for psychological type
What Are Preferences?
- The MBTI reports your preferences on four scales (E-I, S-N, T-F, J-P), each of two opposite poles
- Everyone has a natural preference for one of the two opposites on each of the four scales but not both at once and not, in most cases, with equal confidence
- When you use your preferred methods, you are generally at your best and feel most competent, natural, and energetic
- There are not right or wrong types/preferences. They simply produce different kinds of people, interested in different things and drawn to different fields
- People with different preferences or types from yours tend to be opposite from you in many ways
- Each type/preference has its own inherent strength, as well as its weakenesses
THE FOUR SCALES:
The combinations of which create 16 different types
- Extraversion or Introversion
- Where you prefer to focus you attention
- Sensing or Intuition (Perceiving Process)
- The way you prefer to take in information
- Thinking or Feeling (Judging Process)
- The way you prefer to make decisions
- Judging and Perceiving
- How you orient yourself to the external world (whether you primarily use a Perceiving process or Judging process in relating to the outer world)
Things to consider in Jungian Theory:
- "Extravert" does not mean "talkative"
- "Introvert" does not mean "shy" or "inhibited"
- "Feeling" does not mean "emotional"
- "Judging" does not mean "judgmental"
- "Perceiving" does not mean "perceptive"
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