Talk:Jungian cognitive functions

Psychobabble at its finest

What we have here is people arguing over the fine points of a theory which is pure pseudoscience and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. It is just someone's mad opinion. It should be mentioned that Jung's mind degenerated into psychosis towards the end. He decided to take up residence at the bottom of his garden with all his imaginary friends, whom he had thoughtfully built little mud huts for over the years. There's a photo of it somewhere.--Shim shabim (talk) 20:52, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Some post-cleanup thoughts

• The functions in the grid are in the same order for both extroverted and introverted types; the order is wrong for the introverted types. The correct order can be found here, for example:

Liesldiesl (talk) 21:16, 23 June 2015 (UTC)liesldiesl

• 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)

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)

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

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)

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

To the question of whether functions "always follows the general attitude of consciousness because the function itself in Jung's writing doesn't come with an attitude" I would reference Jung to assert the opposite.

First, he states that an Introverted Thinker would possess Extraverted Feeling: "Apart from the qualities I have mentioned, the undeveloped functions possess the further peculiarity that, when the conscious attitude is introverted, they are extraverted and vice versa. One could therefore expect to find extraverted feelings in an introverted intellectual,"

He also makes clear that the functions take attitudes, not just the person generally: "We then discover that no individual is simply introverted or extraverted, but that he is so in one of his functions."

Finally, he addreses whether it is people who are generally introverted or extraverted verses having specific functions which are introverted/extraverted. He states that it's the functions, not the whole person:

"I would like to stress that each of the two general attitudes, introversion and extraversion, manifests itself in a special way in an individual through the predominance of one of the four basic functions. Strictly speaking, there are no introverts and extraverts pure and simple, but only introverted and extraverted function-types, such as thinking types, sensation types, etc. There are thus at least eight clearly distinguishable types."

Taken together we see Jung saying that Introverted types possess extraverted functions, that it's the attitude of their dominant process that determines the general attitude, and that there are eight attitude-functions that he is describing, not merely more generalized introverted or extraverted types who happen to engage the 4 basic functions.

Clarity of thought (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2018 (UTC)Clarity of thought

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)

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

Someone is using the page to promote function axes???

Apparently someone deleted everything about Jung and left some Celebrity Types ideas that are based on Myers and others. It's a shame to see facts being hid and information added without reference.

User:Malshafey — Preceding undated comment added 14:37, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that would be me. We are talking about Jungian cognitive functions here: when I first discovered this page it was without the functions themselves. An article that doesn't contain a core part of the theory is one article that needs cleaning up.

On the note of having ideas from CelebrityTypes, well, I would consider CT to be a reliable source for Jungian ideas. Jung isn't the sole owner of this theory and many ideas have been refined and clarified from the original Psychological Types. I myself even added ideas from Jung's original writing for these functions and in no way am I trying to "promote" anything or hide facts. If that table was your creation then I suggest you place in it prose as I find it far too confusing placed within a table. Please assume good faith. Thanks, ^{My name is}not^dave (talk/contribs) 11:43, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

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Socionics

Should Model A from Socionics be added here, as well? EPM (talk) 14:29, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Disprove it with Big Five statistics

Jungian function theory says that if you score high on extraversion, high on openness and low on conscientiousness, you can only have a moderate preference for or against agreeableness because it correlates to 'thinking' or 'feeling' which would then be the auxiliary function. I would be surprised if someone could confirm the function order with some data of real big five tests taken. Openness equals Intuition Agreeableness equals Feeling Conscientiousness equals Judging Then you would just have to look at the test results and compare the scores of the dominant and auxiliary function.

And what's the difference between sensing and feeling anyway? You can feel bad emotions as a hit into the stomach. And when you're hungry, you get fear. Thought mistakes also feel like a hit in the stomach and slight migraine. Without psychosomatic reactions, i bet you would behave lobotomized. So feeling and sensing might be more like a circuit between the body and the mind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C6:E73A:3C00:9449:340:611A:EB77 (talk) 17:10, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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I inserted the multiple issues template due to the lead being not well formatted as well as other sections, where the formatting is out of place and doesn't follow the Wikipedia MOS at all, like the inline citations and quotes. The lead and other parts of the article, such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, have no citations, and the citations that are there seem inconsistently formatted. Loverthehater (talk) 22:42, 26 July 2018 (UTC)