ABSTRACT
Jungian theory offers a different sort of subdivision of experiential modes. C. G. Jung speaks of four psychic functions— thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. There is more involved in the question than values alone, since the models of the optimal tend to incorporate various assumptions about the nature of personality organization. The most elaborate description of the optimal condition and of the process leading to it is Jung’s treatment of the individuation process. For most contemporary theorists who deal with the optimal-personality issue, however, the criterion of a successful life is a very broad and amorphous one: one has led a successful life if he has realized his potentials as an individual and as a human being. There is a fair body of data on the personality correlates of creativity based on biographical and psychometric analyses of productive people in the arts and sciences.
