intuitive type

intuitive type

in Carl Jung’s analytic psychology, a functional type characterized by an ability to adapt “by means of unconscious indications” and “a fine and sharpened perception and interpretation of faintly conscious stimuli.” The intuitive type is one of Jung’s two irrational types; the other is the sensation type. See also feeling type; thinking type.

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