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model\n\n8 archetypes guide how the function-attitudesare expressed in an individual psyche  \nHistorical background:Jung's eight functions  \nsensation and introverted intuition('intro-verted irrational types').These were theeight functions in Jung's original descrip-tion.  \nIt was CG Jung,of course,who introducedthe language we use today:words such asfunction and attitude,as well as his highlyspecific names for the four functions ofour conscious orientation(thinking,feeling,sensation,intuition),and the two attitudesthrough which those orientations are de-ployed(introversion and extraversion).  \nThese functions were nothing less thancapacities for consciousness residing with-in any individual—though of course mostpeople do not differentiate all these cap-acities for their own use.It was Jung whotaught us that most people pair a rationalfunction with an irrational one to developa conscious orientation,or,as he put it,anego-consciousness,that for most peopleinvolves just these two differentiatedfunctions.  \nEstablishing the rationale for this langiageas a helpful basis for the analysis of con-sciousness was the purpose of his 1921book,Psychological Types.Toward theend of that book he combined functiontypes and attitude types to describe,inturm,eight function-attitudes.Regrettablyit wasn't until Dick Thompson publishedhis 1996 book Jung's Function-AttitudesExplained that we had that term for them,so most Jungians have simply referred tothem as eight 'functions'  \nJohn Beebe  \nDespite Isabel Briggs Myers's later read-ing of a single sentence in Jung's long andoften contradictory book(Myers &Myers1980:19;Jung 1921/1971:406,para 668),he never made clear that the atitunde typeof the two functions in this two-functionmodel of consciousness would alternatebetween function\\#1 and function\\#2.  \nThere's much talkin the typeworld nowadays about theEight-Function or WholeType Model,and my nameis sometimes brought up asa pioneer in this area.  \nJung did,however,open the door to thepossibility of a further differentiation offunctions,up to a limiting number of four:the fourth to differentiate being his famous'inferior'function,which remains too closeto the unconscious,and thus a source oferrors and complexes.  \nlappreciate this opportunity toestablish the historical con-text of what I've contributed,and explain in my own wordswhat my innovations are.  \nJung said relatively little about the thirdfunction.He expected that both functions\\#3 and\\#4 would,in most people,remainpotentials only,residinginthe unconscious,represented in dreams in archaic ways andrelatively refractory to development exceptunder exceptional circumstances—such asthe individuation process Jung sometimeswitnessed in the analysis of a relativelymature person in the second half of lifewhen the archaic functions would pressfor integration into consciousness.  \nJohn Beebe MD(ENTP),a Jungiananalyst,lectures on psychologicaltypesin many parts of the wond.Hswritings on type have appeared inthe Chiron Clinical Series,Joumalof Analytical Psychology,Psych-ological Perspectives,and severalbooks,induding his pioneering 1992study,Integity in Depth  \njohnbeebe@msn.com  \nNevertheless,for Jung the attitude type wasthe primary thing,and the function type akind of sub-something that expressed thatattitude in a particular way.Accordingly,he organised his general description of thetypes in terms of the attitudes,describingfirst the peculiarities of the basic psycho-logical functions in the extravertedattitude'and then going on to 'the peculiarities ofthe basic psychological functions in theintroverted attitude.'  \nJung started with extraverted thinking andextraverted feeling(which he called 'theextraverted rational types')and extravertedsensation and extraverted intuition('theextraverted irrational types'),before turn-ing to the introverted types:introvertedthinking and introverted feeling('intro-verted rational 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