Jungian Therapy, Jungian Analysis, New York

Orientation

from Jung Lexicon by Daryl Sharp

Orientation. A term used to indicate the general principle governing a personal attitude or viewpoint.

One’s psychological orientation determines how one sees and interprets reality. In Jung’s model of typology, a thinking attitude is oriented by the principle of logic; a sensation attitude is oriented by the direct perception of concrete facts; intuition orients itself to future possibilities; and feeling is governed by subjective worth. Each of these attitudes may operate in an introverted or extraverted way.