> ## 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. # Type - URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/type/ - Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-10T02:37:50.000Z - Description: Type names a characteristic general attitude or function—the habitual orientation of libido as introversion/extraversion and as thinking, feeling, sensation, or intuition (rational vs irrational class - Author: Jae Botávn - Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45 ## 1\. Etymology **Type** names a **characteristic general attitude or function**—the habitual orientation of libido as introversion/extraversion and as thinking, feeling, sensation, or intuition (rational vs irrational classes). Related: [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/); [attitude](https://www.descentpress.com/index/attitude/); [primary-function](https://www.descentpress.com/index/primary-function/); falsification of type. --- ## 2\. Plain summary **Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common type motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):** characteristic attitude or function; rational vs irrational function-types; introversion / extraversion; falsification of type → neurosis; recovery of natural attitude; dual [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/); [psychological-types](https://www.descentpress.com/index/psychological-types/) hub. --- ## 3\. Academic elucidation In analytical psychology type is the **unit of habitual orientation** within Jung’s typological model. Lexicon Sharp supplies the short head; Samuels exposition lives under *typology*. Prefer dual [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/) TYP-1–3; Sharp-cited CW 6 ¶835 / ¶560 for sample—do not mint unverified stamps. --- ## 4\. Lexicon **Sharp (1991)** > Type. A characteristic general attitude or function. \[The\] function-types… may be divided… into the rational and the irrational… A further division… introversion and extraversion… As a rule, whenever such a falsification of type takes place… the individual becomes neurotic later… (Sharp, 1991) — cites CW 6 ¶835 / ¶560 in Sharp’s lemma. > typology … (full quotes live on [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/)) (Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986, pp. **153–155**) — dual via typology leaf. --- ## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive > TYPE. A type is a specimen or example which reproduces in a characteristic way the character of a species or class. In the narrower sense used in this particular work, a type is a characteristic specimen of a general attitude occurring in many individual forms… When any of these attitudes is habitual, thus setting a definite stamp on the character of an individual, I speak of a psychological type. These function-types… may be divided into two classes… into the rational and the irrational. > (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, p. 664, ¶835) Dual [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/) / [attitude](https://www.descentpress.com/index/attitude/) untouched. > The fact that children often exhibit a typical attitude quite unmistakably even in their earliest years forces us to assume that it cannot be the struggle for existence in the ordinary sense that determines a particular attitude… two children of the same mother may exhibit contrary attitudes at an early age… > (Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, p. 469, ¶560) Dual [attitude](https://www.descentpress.com/index/attitude/) untouched. **Dual via [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/) (TYP-1–3 already stamped; no rewrite):** **1936/1971**. --- **See also:** [typology](https://www.descentpress.com/index/typology/); [psychological-types](https://www.descentpress.com/index/psychological-types/); [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/); [unconscious](https://www.descentpress.com/index/unconscious/); [neurosis](https://www.descentpress.com/index/neurosis/). ## References Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types \[Definitions\]. 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. 469, 664, ¶560, ¶835). 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. ---