Dynamics of Personality

Jung Believe that the dynamics principles that apply to physical energy also apply to
psychic energy. These forces include causality and teleology as well as progression and
regression.

Causality and Teleology

Jung accepted a middle position between the philosophical issues of causality and
teleology. In other words, humans are motivated both by their past experiences and by
their expectations of the future.

Causality Holds that behavior is a function of past experiences.

An explanation of behavior in terms of past experiences

Teleology Is an explanation of behavior in terms of future goals or purposes.

An explanation of behavior in terms of future goals or purposes.

Progression and Regression

To achieve self-realization, people must adapt to both their external and internal worlds.

Progression involves adaptation to the outside world and the forward flow of
psychic energy.
The forward flow of psychic energy; involves the extraverted
attitude and movement toward adaptation to the external world.

Regression Refers to adaptation to the inner world and the backward flow of
psychic energy.
The backward flow of psychic energy; regression involves the
introverted attitude and movement toward adaptation to the internal
world.

Jung believed that the backward step is essential to a person's forward movement
toward selfrealization.
 Psychological Types
Eight basic psychological types emerge from the union of two attitudes and four
functions.

Attitudes
Attitudes are predispositions to act or react in a characteristic manner. The two basic
attitudes are Introversion and Extraversion

Introversion
An attitude or type characterized by the turning inward of psychic energy with an
orientation toward the subjective.

Extraversion
An attitude or type marked by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a
person is oriented toward the objective world.

Function

The four functions are thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition:

Thinking - A rational function that tells us the meaning of an image that originates either
from the external world (extraverted) or from the internal world (introverted).

Feeling- A rational function that tells us the value of something. The feeling function can
be either extraverted (directed toward the objective world) or introverted (directed
toward the subjective world).

Sensation- An irrational function that receives physical stimuli and transmits them to
perceptual consciousness. People may rely on either extraverted sensing (outside
perceptions) or on introverted sensing (internal perceptions).

Intuition- An unconscious physical impulse toward action. Instincts are the physical
counterpart of archetypes.
The two attitudes or extroversion and introversion can combine with four basic functions
to form eight general personality types.

Thinking

Extraverted Thinking
Rely heavily on concrete thoughts. May use abstract ideas if it was transmitted to
them from without.

Introverted Thinking
React to external stimuli, but their interpretation of an event is more by internal
meaning they bring with them by objective facts.

Feeling

Extraverted Feeling
Uses objective data to make evaluation. They are directed by external values
and widely accepted standard of judgment.

Introverted Feeling
Based their value of judgement primarily on subjective perception

Sensing

Extraverted Sensing
Perceive external stimuli objective.

Introverted Sensing
Largely influence by their subjective sensation

Intuiting

Extraverted Intuitive
Oriented towards facts in external world.

Introverted Intuitive
Basically subjective and have little or no resemblance to external reality.