Thinking is a rational, judging function and on the opposite pole of feeling. It organizes experiences and ideas and tends to be intellectual, analytical and impersonal. The thinking function has no necessary connection with intelligence or the quality of thought,…
You know, people come to therapy really for blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, as to get what's broken blessed. - James HillmanDream Animals, page 2 There is so much emphasis on "fixing" in our culture. We think…
Thinking gives clarity to the perceptions and decisions of the feeling function. It tends to be intellectual, impersonal, and analytical. Thinking needs more information than feeling in order to make a judgement, so it tends to work more slowly than…
Objective Personality isn’t the first to use human needs in personality typing. Perhaps you’ll see some correlations to the four Objective Personality human needs (tribe, identity, control, gather) in these. Back in 1938, Henry Murray, when he was director of…
The feeling function is about a lot more than feelings. In fact, according to Marie-Louise von Franz, a person who seems full of feeling may not be a feeling type at all, but instead a thinking type with inferior feeling.…