Function Attitude
What are function attitudes? What do they mean to Lenore?
Lenore often refers to function-attitudes just as "functions", which goes back to Jung.
On this wiki, we lean toward the more intuitively clear word "attitudes".
A function-attitude is a Jungian function used in an Extraverted or Introverted attitude. Each type uses a combination of the four functions in a preferred order.
Functions
In Lenore's system, there are four functions:
These are commonly grouped into Perception (Sensation and Intuition) and Judgment (Thinking and Feeling) within Jungian typology. Irrational and rational are used respectively as well, albeit differently than common utilisation.
Sensation
Thinking
Intuition
Feeling
See Truth-and-Language Exegesis for more information on why this may be.
Function-attitudes
These four functions are then split into introverted and extraverted functions according to how one orients themselves.
Exactly what a function-attitude is is the main part of the Definition Problem. See also Genus Problem.
Jung's choice of terminology
Q. Why did Jung choose the term "function"?
A. Perhaps to get psychology to sound like physics or mathematics.
...any other answers?
A. Jung, Psychological Types, p.273: He borrow terms coined by Otto Gross. The "primary function" and the "secondary function".
A. He probably called it a function because it is a function! A function is an action performed by something, in this case a brain! It makes perfect sense.
A. Random House definition of function: #1 the kind of action or activity proper to any person or thing #2 the purpose for which something is designed or exists. As an INFJ, it makes perfect sense to me. Your function is what serves your purpose, it is what's proper to yourself. If you want more of where this came from, check this out
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