"The extraverted type is constantly tempted to expend himself for the apparent benefit of the object, to assimilate subject to object" Jung, Psychological Types [abridged] Collected Works Vol 6 Par 569
"The superior function is always an expression of the conscious personality, of its aim, will, and general performance, whereas the less differentiated functions fall into the category of things that simply 'happen' to one." Jung, Psychological Types [abridged] Collected Works Vol 6 Par 575
"...when my thoughts are preoccupied with a concrete object or a general idea, in such a way that the course of my thinking eventually leads me back to my starting point, this intellectual process is not the only psychic process that is going on in me. I will disregard all those sensations and feeling which become noticeable as a more or less disturbing accompaniment to my train of thought, and will merely point out that this very thinking process which starts from the object and returns to the object also stands in a constant relation to the subject. This relation is a sine qua non, without which no thinking process whatsoever could take place. Even though my thinking process is directed, as far as possible, to objective data, it is still my subjective process, and it can neither avoid nor dispense with this admixture of subjectivity. Struggle as I may to give an objective orientation to my train of thought, I cannot shut out the parallel subjective process and its running accompaniment without extinguishing the very spark of life from my thought."Jung, Psychological Types [abridged] Collected Works Vol 6 Par 588
"when extraverted thinking is subordinated to objective data as a result of over-determination by the object, it engrosses itself entirely in the individual experience and accumulates a mass of undigested empirical material. The oppressive weight of individual experiences having little or no connection with one another produces a dissociation of thought which usually requires psychological compensation. This must consist in some simple, general idea that gives coherence to the disordered whole, or at least affords the possibility of such...but when the thinking depends primarily not on an objective data but on some second-hand idea, the very poverty of this thinking is compensated by an all the more impressive accumulation of facts congregating round a sterile and narrow point of view with the result that many valuable and meaningful aspects are completely lost sight of" Jung, Psychological Types [abridged] Collected Works Vol 6 Par 583
"If observation is restricted to outward behavior without any concern for the internal economy of the individual's consciousness, on may get an even stronger impression of the irrational and fortuitous nature of certain unconscious manifestations that of the reasonableness of his conscious intentions and motivations." Jung, Psychological Types [abridged] Collected Works Vol 6 Par 601
By overvaluing our capacity for objective cognition we repress the importance of the subjective factor, which simply means a denial of the subject. But what is the subject? The subject is man himself - we are the subject. Only a sick mind could forget that cognition must have a subject, and that there is no knowledge whatever and therefore no world at all unless "I know" has been said, though with this statement one has already expressed the subjective limitation of all knowledge." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 621
" By the subjective factor I understand that psychological action or reaction which merges with the effect produced by the object and so gives rise to new psychic datum. In so far as the subjective factor has...in a large measure remained constant, elementary perceptions and cognitions being almost universally the same, it is a reality that is just as firmly established as the external object.If this were not so, any sort of permanent and essentially unchanging reality would be ...inconceivable and any understanding of the past would be impossible." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 622
"But just as the object and objective data do not remain permanently the same, being perishable and subject to chance, so too the subjective factor is subject to variation and individual hazards." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 622
"The psychic structure is...the "collective unconscious. The individual self is a portion or segment or representative of something present in all living creatures, an exponent of the specific mode of psychological behavior, which varies from speccies to species and is inborn in each of its members,...[Instinct] the inborn mode of acting and..[Archetype] the inborn mode of psychic apprehension." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 624
"The archetype is a symbollic formula which always begins to function when there are no conscious ideas present, ore when conscious ideas are inhibited for internal or external reasons. The contents of the collective unconscious are represented in consciousness in the form of pronounced preferences and definite ways of looking at things. These subjective tendencies and views are generally regarded by the individuals as being determined by the object - incorrectly, since they have their source in the unconscious structure of the psyche and are merely released by the effect of the object. They are stronger than the object's influence, their psychic value is higher, so that they superimpose themselves on all impressions." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 625
"[Subjectivization of consciousness]...an almost compete identity of the ego with the self; the importance of is reduced to nil, while the ego is inflated beyond measure. The whole world-creating force of the subjective factor becomes concentrated in the ego, producing a boundless power-complex and a fatuous egocentricity. Every psychology which reduces the essence of man to the unconscious power drive springs form this kind of disposition. Many of Nietzsche's lapses in taste, for example, are due to this subjectivization of consciousness." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 625
"...if the ego has usurped the claims of the subject, this naturally produces, by way of compensation, an unconscious reinforcement of the influence of the object. In spite of positively convulsive efforts to ensure the superiority of the ego, which is all the more invincible because it seizes on the individual unawares and forcibly obtrudes itself on his consciousness. As a result of the ego's unadapted relation to the object- for a desire to dominate is not adaptation- a compensatory relation arises in the unconscious which makes itself felt as an absolute and irrepressible tie to the object. The more the ego struggles to preserve its independence, freedom from obligation, and superiority, the more it becomes enslaved to the objective data [individual freedom of mind//financial dependence; Freedom of action//fear of public opinion; Moral superiority//morass of inferior relationship; Desire to dominate//pitiful craving to be loved.]" Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 626
"The predominance of the subjective factor in consciousness naturally involves a devaluation of the object...to the extent that his consciousness is subjectivized and excessive importance attached to the ego...The object is a factor whose importance cannot be denied, whereas the ego is a very limited and fragile thing." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 626
"...If the ego has usurped the claims of the subject, this naturally produces, by way of compensation, an unconscious reinforcement of the influence of the object." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 626
"...whether introverted thinking is concerned with concrete or abstract objects, always at the decisive points it is oriented by subjective data. ...with regard to the establishment of new facts it is only indirectly of value, since new views rather than knowledge of new facts are its main concern." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 628
"[Extroverted thinking] the purely empirical accumulation of facts paralyzes thought and smothers their meaning...introverted thining shows a dangerous tendency to force the facts into the shape of its image, or to ignore them altogether in order to give fantasy free play" Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 629
"Subjective perception...What is perceived is either not found at all in the object, or is, at most, merely suggested by it...it makes a definite psychic impression because the elements of a higher psychic order are discernible in it" Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 648
"[Introverted]Sensation which by its very nature is dependent upon the object and on objective stimuli, undergoes considerable modification in the introverted attitude...In the introverted attitude sensation is based predominantly on the subjective component of perception...The subjective factor...is an unconscious disposition which alters the sense-perception at its source, thus depriving it of the character of a purely objective influence." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 647
"Subjective perception...What is perceived is either not found at all in the object or is, at most suggested by it...the perception can be similar to that of other men, [but] is not immediately derived from the objective behaviour of things...it makes a definite psychic impression because elements of a higher psychic order are discernible in it. This order...has to do whit presuppositions or dispositions of the collective unconscious, with mythological images, with primordial possibilities of ideas." Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 648
"Introverted sensation apprehends the background of the physical world rater than it's surface" Jung: Psychological Types [abridged] CW Vol.6 Par 649
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