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 every day life and in analytic work. This seminar will examine the role of psychological types in the process of individuation, the rationale and basic principles of Jung’s theory of typology, and how such a theory fits into a contemporary understanding of analytical psychology.  It will also take a deeper look at the four functions, their meaning and their role in person’s psychic economy.

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Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research(former Director) 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 on Jungian theory and German aesthetics. She runs a long-standing reading group at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (open to the public) 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.

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Jung, C.G., 1921/1974. Psychological Types, paras 883-914 and paras 937-987. In, Collected Works volume 6, Routledge

Jung, C.G., 1913. Mysterium Encounter, Layer 2, pp.179-183. In, Jung, C.G., 2012. The Red Book, Readers Edition. Princeton University Press

Beebe, John, 2017. Chapter 3. pp. 19-38 only. Understanding Consciousness through the theory of Psychological Types. In, Energies and patterns in psychological type, Routledge

Kotsch, William,2000. Jung’s mediatory science as a psychology beyond objectivism. In, Journal of analytical psychology

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