5. C. G. Jung’s—Psychological Types

The diagram below shows Jung’s “Psychological Types”. The names of each type I took from Carl Gustav Jung’s book “Psychological Types”.

As we can see in the diagram above in total, there are eight types in Jung’s personality theory:

• four introverted, and
• four extraverted.

Among these eight types, Jung distinguished:

• two intuitive types (on the top):
  — Extraverted Intuitive Type,
  — Introverted Intuitive Types.


• two sensation types (at the bottom):
  — Introverted Sensation Type,
  — Extraverted Sensation Type.


• two thinking types (on the left):
  — Extraverted Thinking Type,
  — Introverted Thinking Type.


• two feeling types (on the right):
  — Introverted Feeling Type,
  — Extraverted Feeling Type.

In the diagram above, the types are also arranged so that:

• introverted types are inside (what represents focusing on our inner world), and
• extraverted types are placed outside (what represents focusing on our outer world).

So, this arrangement is simple and symbolic, but I cannot adopt it in the Mandala of Characters. It is because types in the Mandala are arranged on a circle. So in the next diagram, I present the arrangement of Jung’s types on the circle.

Now can we see that:

• we have still the same division into four parts, which corresponds to the basic psychological functions. That is, we have four main areas that cover:
  — Intuition,
  — Sensation,
  — Thinking, and
  — Feeling.
• the individual types are next to each other, and not inside and outside as in the previous diagram.

In the next diagram, I present Jung’s psychological types as eight points that are arranged around the circle.

In the above diagram, I also included the division made by Jung into:

• rational types, which are divided into:
  — intuitive types, and
  — sensation types.
• aesthetic (or irrational) types, which are divided into:
  — thinking types, and
  — feeling types.

Inside the diagram, I have also included short descriptions of what mainly are following the intuitive, sensation, thinking and feeling types.

Jung’s typology was the second personality theory I studied. While analyzing Jung’s “Psychological Types”, I also compared them with Enneagram types. At some point, when I tried to combine these two typologies with each other, I made the first sketches of the Mandala of Characters.

Then I began to rediscover the Ancient Typology. After some time, the idea emerged that I can arrange Jung’s Typology and Enneagram on the foundation of Ancient Typology. And, in a nutshell, it was the way, I created the Mandala of Characters.

Later it also turned out that other personality typologies I can also adapt to the Mandala, that is:

• H. J. Eysenck personalities,
• MBTI®,
• MTR-i™,
• Socionics,
• and others.

Personalities by Eysenck I matched to the Mandala of Characters in the third chapter. The matching of MBTI®, MTR-i™, and Socionics I will present in the following chapters.

About it, in what way I adapted Jung’s typology to the Mandala, I wrote in work “The Mandala of Characters—creation history”.

In the diagram below, I present Jung’s typology matched to the Mandala of Characters.

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