> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.descentpress.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Sensation - URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/sensation/ - Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-11T20:19:21.000Z - Description: Sensation — Descent Press Index (entry forthcoming). - Author: Jae Botávn - Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45 \## 1\. Etymology \*\*Sensation\*\* names the \*\*psychological function that perceives immediate reality through the physical senses\*\*. Compare \[intuition\](/index/intuition/); related: irrational function; \*fonction du réel\*; concrete vs abstract sensation. \--- \## 2\. Plain summary \*\*Sensation\*\* tells that something \*is\*—the sensible fact of presence—without yet saying what it means or what it is worth. Like \[intuition\](/index/intuition/) it is irrational (perceiving, not judging), but it takes its bearings from concrete sense data and inner bodily change, not from unconscious possibility alone. A sensation type trusts what can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled; intuition then tends to fall inferior. Related to \[feeling\](/index/feeling/)/\[thinking\](/index/thinking/) as the rational pair, and to \[introversion\](/index/introversion/)/\[extraversion\](/index/extraversion/) as attitude modes that further color how sensation orients. \*\*Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common sensation-function motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):\*\* perceives immediate reality via physical senses; establishes that something exists; \*fonction du réel\*; irrational function with intuition; concrete/sensuous vs abstract sensation; related to external and inner organic stimuli; must be differentiated from \[feeling\](/index/feeling/) (feeling-tone may attach); complementary inferior when \[intuition\](/index/intuition/) superior; pairs with intuition as irrational pair; practical “in a rut” risk when one-sided; \[compensation\](/index/compensation/) when one-sided; \[consciousness\](/index/consciousness/) orientation by fact; \[typology\](/index/typology/) / \[inferior-function\](/index/inferior-function/) balance; \[opposites\](/index/opposites/) of fact vs possibility. \--- \## 3\. Academic elucidation In analytical psychology sensation is the \*\*irrational perceiving function of concrete reality\*\*, paired with intuition and contrasted with the rational judging pair (\[thinking\](/index/thinking/) / \[feeling\](/index/feeling/)). Lexica stress both outer sense-perception and inner organic change, and Jung’s distinction between concrete sensation (always mixed with ideas, feelings, thoughts) and abstract sensation (salient sensuous attribute isolated—found chiefly among artists). Descent Press keeps Sharp and Samuels in §4 so lexicon paraphrase never silently becomes Jung’s voice; §5 holds SCHOLIAST \*\*verified-seen\*\* vol+page+¶ stamps (exhaustive concordance remains PAUSED). \--- \## 4\. Lexicon \*\*Sharp (1991)\*\* — printed page \*\*provisional / unverified\*\*: \> Sensation. The psychological function that perceives immediate reality through the physical senses. … In Jung’s model of typology, sensation, like intuition, is an irrational function. It perceives concrete facts, with no judgment of what they mean or what they are worth. … Sensation must be strictly differentiated from feeling… Sensation is related not only to external stimuli but to inner ones… Jung also distinguished between sensuous or concrete sensation and abstract sensation… (Sharp, 1991, p. \[provisional — unverified\]) \*\*Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986)\*\* — under \*typology\* pp. \*\*153–155\*\* (\*\*verified-seen\*\*): \> typology … sensation — which represents all facts available to the senses, telling us that something is, but not what it is; and, finally, intuition… A further refinement is that these four functions divide into two pairs — a rational pair (thinking and feeling) and an irrational pair (sensation and intuition)… (Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986, pp. \*\*153–155\*\*) — \*\*verified-seen\*\* (SCHOLIAST; typology head; sensation under typology; shared FTI verify). \--- \## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive \*Exhaustive CW 1–20 sentence-per-hit sweep remains \*\*PAUSED\*\*. Bounded SCHOLIAST \*\*verified-seen\*\* sentences only.\* \> Sensation is the psychological function that mediates the perception of a physical stimulus. It is, therefore, identical with perception. Sensation must be strictly distinguished from feeling… although it may associate itself with sensation as “feeling-tone.” Sensation is related not only to external stimuli but to inner ones, i.e., to changes in the internal organic processes. (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, p. 637, ¶792) — \*\*verified-seen\*\* (SCHOLIAST SENS-1; \*Psychological Types\*, Definitions). \> Primarily, therefore, sensation is sense perception—perception mediated by the sense organs and “body-senses” (kinaesthetic, vasomotor sensation, etc.). (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, pp. 637–638, ¶793) — \*\*verified-seen\*\* (SENS-2). \> A distinction must be made between sensuous or concrete sensation and abstract sensation. … I regard sensation as conscious, and intuition as unconscious, perception. … I therefore call it an irrational function… (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, pp. 638–639, ¶¶794–795) — \*\*verified-seen\*\* (SENS-3). \*Ledger: \`2026-09-05-scholiast-sensation-loci.md\`. Year-lock: \`apa7-sensation-year-lock.md\`.\* \--- \*\*See also:\*\* \[intuition\](/index/intuition/); \[feeling\](/index/feeling/); \[thinking\](/index/thinking/); \[inferior-function\](/index/inferior-function/); \[typology\](/index/typology/); \[introversion\](/index/introversion/); \[extraversion\](/index/extraversion/); \[consciousness\](/index/consciousness/); \[compensation\](/index/compensation/); \[opposites\](/index/opposites/). \## References Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types \[Definitions: Sensation\]. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), \*The collected works of C. G. Jung\* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 6, pp. 637–639, ¶¶792–795). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1921) 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. \*Ghost HOLD. Concordance PAUSE. Pattern A \`/index/sensation/\`. CW 6 \*\*1921/1971\*\* (SENS-1–3). Samuels typology pp. \*\*153–155\*\* verified-seen. Sharp provisional. Next: inferior-function → typology (Mercurius).\*