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Jung's Typology

aka: Lectures on Jung's Typology (essay: "The Inferior Function")

collection of essays by mixed authors
includes work by M.-L. von Franz
in print
1971
ISBN: 0-88214-104-X

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Marie-Louise von Franz' essay The Inferior Function is unique for clearly and practically outlining the analytical uses of Jung's typology. Here she emphasizes and demonstrates how it is the inferior function, the awkward, least adapted part in an individual, which paradoxically, standing closest to the unconscious, is the most creatively charged, and holds the key to the whole individuation process. As usual, von Franz' mixture of Jungian expertise and down-to-earth profundity is a strong antidote to the temptation to use Jung's typology as a pseudo-intellectual framework.
-- B.G.

Note: this essay is now available in Psychotherapy.

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