Orientation

1. Etymology

Orientation names the general principle governing a personal attitude or viewpoint. Related: typology; attitude.

2. Plain summary

Psychological orientation determines how one sees and interprets reality. In Jung’s typology: thinking orients by logic; sensation by direct perception of concrete facts; intuition to future possibilities; feeling by subjective worth. Each may operate in an introversion or extraversion way.

Samuels: no dedicated orientation head—language appears under typology / attitude neighborhoods.

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common orientation motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
governing principle of attitude/viewpoint; four functions as orientations; introverted/extraverted modes; dual-stamp typology leaves; see-and-interpret reality.

3. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology orientation is typological governing principle—Sharp short lemma. Prefer CW 6 / attitude essays; dual-stamp function lemmas.

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Orientation. A term used to indicate the general principle governing a personal attitude or viewpoint. … a thinking attitude is oriented by the principle of logic; a sensation attitude is oriented by the direct perception of concrete facts; intuition orients itself to future possibilities; and feeling is governed by subjective worth. Each of these attitudes may operate in an introverted or extraverted way.

(Sharp, 1991) — no discrete CW pointer

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — no dedicated orientation head

(No dedicated Samuels head.) Related under typology / attitude

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

ORIENTATION. I use this term to denote the general principle governing an attitude (q.v.). Every attitude is oriented by a certain viewpoint, no matter whether this viewpoint is conscious or not. A power attitude (v. Power-complex) is oriented by the power of the ego (q.v.) to hold its own against unfavourable influences and conditions. A thinking attitude is oriented by the principle of logic as its supreme law; a sensation attitude is oriented by the sensuous perception of given facts.
(Jung, 1921/1971, CW 6, p. 631, ¶780)

Dual-stamp attitude ATT-1–3 (already folded — no rewrite): CW 6 ¶687 / ¶690 / ¶691 1921/1971.

See also: attitude; introversion; extraversion; thinking; feeling; sensation; intuition.

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, p. 631, ¶780). 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.