{"id":15569,"date":"2021-04-05T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=15569"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:59:48","slug":"the-four-basic-types-and-their-sub-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/the-four-basic-types-and-their-sub-types\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Basic Types And Their Sub-Types"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Assagioli presents how each of the four types lives in separate worlds and that an understanding of this diversity of experience can foster a deeper understanding.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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By Roberto Assagioli.<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u00a0It was translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: I Quattro Tipi Fondamentali EI Loro Sottotipi. [Editor’s note (KS). This is unfinished notes from an early manuscript; Assagioli later developed his sevenfold typology called\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The Seven Types<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0and presented them in his book Psychosynthesis Typology]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

After the general introduction on the nature, value, purposes and development of individual psychology, made in past lessons, today we can begin the study of the various psychological types.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We will first examine the four fundamental types formed by the various prevalence of the four fundamental psychic functions: that is, perceiving, feeling, thinking and intuiting, and therefore of the corresponding spheres of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1. \u2013 The Perceptual or Practical sensory type<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In this type, the predominant psychic function is that of perceiving by means of the sense organs. Experience, interest, and activity take place towards the outside world and towards the body. Practical problems, the dominance of matter and external action, form the normal sphere of this type.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It generally includes workers (farmers, workers, etc.), housewives, businessmen, engineers, doctors, and particularly sculptors and architects. For them, the external world is the only real, solid and understandable one, while in the sphere of emotions, feelings and ideas in general, or subtle spiritual intuitions, they find themselves uncomfortable, as in a fantastic and unreal world, evanescent and elusive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n