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# Psychological types
- URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/psychological-types/
- Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T02:25:19.000Z
- Description: Psychological types is Sharp’s synonym redirect to type and typology. The Index’s living lemma for attitudes, functions, and the personal equation is typology. Related: introversion; extraversion; pri
- Author: Jae Botávn
- Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45

## 1\. Etymology

**Psychological types** is Sharp’s synonym redirect to **type** and **[typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/)**. The Index’s living lemma for attitudes, functions, and the personal equation is [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/). Related: [introversion](https://www.descentpress.com/index/introversion/); [extraversion](https://www.descentpress.com/index/extraversion/); [primary-function](https://www.descentpress.com/index/primary-function/); [fourth-function](https://www.descentpress.com/index/fourth-function/).

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## 2\. Plain summary

**Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common psychological-types motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):**  
Sharp redirect → type / typology; book-title path (*Psychological Types*, 1921); eight attitude–function combinations; dual-stamp TYP-1–3 only.

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## 3\. Academic elucidation

Hub entry. Authority and §5 sample: [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/) (TYP folded). No new psychological-types leaf stamps this pass.

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## 4\. Lexicon

**Sharp (1991)**

> Psychological types. See type and typology.

(Sharp, 1991)

> typology … (full quotes live on [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/))

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986, pp. **153–155**) — dual via typology leaf.

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## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

- **TYP-1** CW 6 *Psychological Typology* ¶983 p.753 **1936/1971**
- **TYP-2** CW 6 same ¶985 p.754 **1936/1971**
- **TYP-3** CW 6 same ¶986 **1936/1971**

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**See also:** [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/); [introversion](https://www.descentpress.com/index/introversion/); [extraversion](https://www.descentpress.com/index/extraversion/); [thinking](https://www.descentpress.com/index/thinking/); [feeling](https://www.descentpress.com/index/feeling/); [sensation](https://www.descentpress.com/index/sensation/); [intuition](https://www.descentpress.com/index/intuition/); [psychogenic](https://www.descentpress.com/index/psychogenic/); [psychoid](https://www.descentpress.com/index/psychoid/).

## References

Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological typology. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), *The collected works of C. G. Jung* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 6, ¶983, ¶985, ¶986). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1936)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). *A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis*. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). *Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts*. Inner City Books.

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