ABSTRACT
From approximately 1913 to 1921, the date of the publication of Psychological Types, C. G. Jung went through the most fertile, if also perhaps most painful, period of his life. The complex opposition between will and instinct in consciousness allows the distinction of intuition from the psychological terms generally associated with it. The historical genesis of types—a new context here of the birth of intuition—represents another way of grasping their real complexity. The chapter examines it after delineating the fundamental structures and dynamics of the types and functions. The basic functions from which Jung's typology derives—thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition—characterise four of the seven contents likely to appear in consciousness. The other three are the volitional processes, the instinctual ones, and dreams. Like a puzzle constituted by thoughts, experience, reading, and, last but not least, debates at the Zurich Club, Jung was in the process of getting a first big picture of his psychology.
