Jung and Intuition
Carl Jung, the psychologist, used the term ‘intuitive’ when referring to certain personality types (which were elaborated upon later by Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers (her daughter)).
Jung developed four classifications: Thinking
Rather than look at all of these, I just want to concentrate on the Intuitive aspect.
For Jung, the Intuition aspect came through clearly without mental activity (no thinking or feeling). He asserted that there was no physical cause but that it was a hunch or a ‘gut feeling”.
How would you know if you were showing this aspect of Jung’s personality trait? Simple!
You’re being intuitive (according to Jung) if you
- Come up with a new way of doing things
- Think about future implications for a current action
- Perceive underlying meaning in what people say or do
- See the big picture
What is being focused on here is that manner in which we gather information from the world.
Other indicators of a predominantly intuitive type would be that they
- are mostly in the past or in the future
- worry about the future more than the present
- are interested in everything new and unusual
- do not like routine
- are attracted more to the theory than the practice
- often have doubts
The situation can be made more complex by including two other factors: extraverion or introversion. Briefly extraverts are more interested in the world “out there”, while introverts are more in the mental world inside themselves. So you can have Extraverted Intuitives and you can have Introverted intuitives.
What are the differences?
An Extraverted Intuitive would be one who looks for underlying ideas and principles in new situations and who has good diagnostic skills or good ‘vision’ about an idea or a project. The trouble is that people of this type become easily bored and go looking for the next stimulus because they do not cope well with routine.
An Introverted Intuitive would be someone who can have deep, almost mystical experiences, but have little interest in explaining them to others. Artists or visionaries belong often in this category as do seers. They are frequently misunderstood because they cannot communicate their internal happenings easily.
Perhaps you can recognize yourself in part from this.
To learn more about the Myers-Briggs Personality Theory (which they developed from Jung’s ideas), you should visit this site
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