Dr. Mann’s question: “Is it not by intuition that one arrives most easily at the transcendent function, and if a person is lacking in that function—that is, in intuition—are not the difficulties greatly increased?
Must one not reach the transcendent function alone, that is, unaided?”
Dr. Jung: It depends very much on the person’s type as to what part intuition plays in finding the transcen- dent function.
If the superior function is intuition, for example, then the intuitions are directly in the way, since the transcen- dent function is made, or takes place, between the superior and the inferior functions.
The inferior function can only come up at the expense of the superior, so that in the intuitive type the intu- itions have to be overcome, so to speak, in order for the transcendent function to be found.
On the other hand, if the person is a sensation type, then the intuitions are the inferior function, and the tran- scendent function may be said to be arrived at through intuition.
It is a fact that in analysis it often seems as though intuition were the most important of the functions, but that is only so because analysis is a laboratory experiment and not reality. Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 27
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