Talk:Jungian cognitive functions

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Some post-cleanup thoughts

This article is not about "cognitive functions", but rather about personality and what is termed "cognitive style". Cognitive functions refer to concepts in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience. I suggest that this article is renamed to a title that reflects its actual content.

11:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)Kolbjørn Brønnick

This could probably do with more discussion by someone who actually understands of what the whole business about the attitude of the tertiary actually means, and how you get from the "dichotomies" to intro/extra-verted versions of the four basic cognitive functions, since all four of them are included in just half of the dichotomies.
The title should really be singular by WP:MOS, but cognitive function (correctly, in my view) redirects to cognition, so I'm not sure whether that needs fixing.
I really don't like the sloppy use of "energy" in these sorts of things. It's a very well defined physical concept.
What do all the ?s in the Jung table mean? Did he just assert that auxiliary and inferior functions existed, but didn't go into detail?

--Bth 18:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What are these functions?

The article doesn't explain them, just sorts them into tables. 4.245.109.40 (talk) 22:48, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I added a new section to address that. [user:Malshafey (talk) 04:34, 19 April 2015 (UTC)Malshafey][reply]

Question

"Myers interpreted Jung as saying that the auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions are always in the opposite attitude of the dominant."

Where does Jung ever discuss a tertiary function? And where does he say that the inferior functions are always in the opposite attitude of the dominant? I'm skeptical here. M^A^L (talk) 00:40, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: Jung never said any function is the opposite attitude of the primary/dominant. The conscious side of a function always follows the general attitude of consciousness because the function itself in Jung's writing doesn't come with an attitude; it takes that of either consciousness or the unconscious depending on who it submits to. The unconscious side follows the opposing general attitude of the unconscious, which would dominate if a person had only developed one function. According to Jung, the functions are never differentiated in the opposing attitude, as he never said that attitudes of introversion and extraversion are specific to each function as Myers understood. You can refer to his book and verify.

--User:Malshafey

Article Needs Some More Cleaning Up

'...the most developed function is referred to as the "dominant", with the remaining three filling the roles as "auxiliary" and "inferior" functions.'

I count two remaining functions, not three. Let me count them. 1. auxiliary 2. inferior

Where is the third remaining function in that sentence? M^A^L (talk) 13:02, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: I did not write this, but inferior refers to the condition when the function is not developed. Inferior functions can usually be 2-4, depending on the person.

A differentiated type with auxiliary has one primary developed function, one auxiliary under-developed function, and two inferior undeveloped functions. --User:Malshafey