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VI JGHT-FUNCTI Eight archetypes guide how the function-attitudes are expressed in an individual psyche ‘There's much talkin the type world nowadays about the Eight- Function or Whole Type Model, and my name is sometimes ‘brought up as a pioneer in this ares. This chopter establishes the bistorical contest of what I've contefbuted, and explains in myown ‘words what myinnowations have been, Historical background: Jung’s eight functions Teas ©. G. Jang, of course, who introduced the language we use today: words such as function and attitude, as well es his highly specific names for the four fanetions of our conscious orientation (thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition), and the two attitudes ‘through which theco orientations are deployed (introversion and cextraverson). Fetablishing the rationale for this language asa helpful basis for the analysis of consciousness was the purpose of his 1921 book, Psychological Types. Toward the end ofthat bock he combined function types and attitude types to describe, in tura, eight fomction-atitndes. Regrettably it wasn't until Dick Thompson ‘published his 1996 book Jung's Functon-Atttudes Explained that ‘we had that term for these cognitive processes so most Jungians Ihave simply referred to them as eight functions. ‘Nevertheless, for Jung the attitude type was the primary thing, ‘and the function type a kind of sub-something that expressed that attitude in a particular way. Accordingly, he organized his general

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