Passages Beyond the Gate by Jennings George-Harold;

Author:Jennings, George-Harold;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UPA
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 2-2 Hypothesized relationship between the four psychological functions and four related psychologies in the psyche of American psychology.

In 1931, Jung wrote the following passage about the purpose of each psychological function:

Sensation establishes what is actually present, thinking enables us to recognize its meaning, feeling tells us its value, and intuition points to possibilities as to whence it came and whither it is going. (pp. 540-541)

Substituting the four functions with their respective psychology, as suggested in Jung’s analysis, provides an encapsulating statement about the nature of a psychology that draws on all aspects of the four psychological functions. Jung’s passage rewritten with the substitutions becomes:

Sensation/behavioral psychologies establish what is actually present,4 thinking/psychoanalytic psychologies enable us to recognize (our) meaning5, feeling/humanistic-existential psychologies tell us (our) values6, and intuitive/transpersonal psychologies point to possibilities as to whence (we) came and whither (we) are going7.

Many persons are seeking answers to the question, “Where is humankind going?” or “What is my purpose in life?” A psychology that can help us answer these and similar questions is clearly worthy of our most serious attention.

Notes

1. Excerpted from Jennings, G-H. (1982) doctoral dissertation.

2. To be used interchangeably with psychoanalysis and Freudian psychology.

3. This Buddhist concept is ancient.

4. They identify those aspects of who we are that can readily be observed and/or measured.

5. They explain the mechanisms that account for our functioning or provide etiological interpretations of our actions or our behaviors.

6. They identify our worth, our importance and the things that are important to us.

7. They help us identify what one might call our “true origin,” our essential purpose or our ultimate or transcendent destination.

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