The theory of psychological types was Jung’s first formulation of the process of individuation in psychological language after completing the Red Book, and his first attempt to articulate how individuation can be approached practically in everyday life and in analytic work. This seminar will build on the seminar given in 2025 on the significance of psychological types in Jung’s work, and their role in the process of individuation. It will give a quick overview of the two attitudes of introversion and extraversion as part of the process of individuation and will focus more deeply on the four functions of consciousness, their role in a person’s psychic economy and in the therapeutic relationship.

Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute. She runs a long-standing reading group at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is one of the three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber Novus. She works with several Jungian and Psychoanalytic trainings in the UK for the development of training curricula.

· Jung, C.G., 1931/1974. A Psychological Theory of Types. In, Collected Works volume 6, Routledge.

· von Franz, M.L., 2015. The Role of the Inferior Function in Psychic Development. In. Lectures on Jung’s Typology. Spring publications.

· Myers, Steve, 2016. The five functions of psychological type. In, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2016, 61, 2, 183–202

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Further reading

· Beebe, John, 2013. Psychological Types and the Therapeutic Interaction. In, Transference Countertransference, edited by Schwartz-Salant, Nathan and Stein, Murray, Chiron

· Groesbeck, C.J, 1978. Psychological types in the Analysis of the Transference. In, The Journal of Analytical Psychology

· Jung, C.G. 2013. Letter to Hans Schmid Guisan on 4 June 1915, pages 39-47. In, The Question of Psychological Types. The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid- Guisan,1915– 1916. Princeton University Press

· Jung, C.G., 1923/1974. On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetic Art. In, Collected Works volume 15, Routledge

· Jung, C.G. 1921/1974. Chapter 5. The Type Problem in Poetry, paras 275-460. In, Psychological Types, Collected Works volume 6, Routledge

· Jung, C.G., 1921/1974. Chapter 10. General Description of Types. In, Psychological Types, Collected Works Volume 6. Routledge

· Sharp, Daryl, 1988. Personality Types: Jung's Model of Typology. Inner City Books

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