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superior function

superior function

in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung, the function among the four basic functions—seeing, thinking, intuiting, and feeling—that rules the conscious ego and dominates the other three, which become inferior functions in the unconscious. The superior function determines the functional type of the individual.

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