Abstract
A group of 22 Muslim educators participating in a residential Islamic Education summer school were invited to explore their individual preferences for thinking and feeling (the two functions of the Jungian judging process). They were then invited to work in three groups (seven clear thinking types, eight clear feeling types, and seven individuals less clear of their preference) to discuss Psalm 1. Clear differences emerged between the ways in which thinking types and feeling types handled the judgement metred out to the wicked in the Psalm. The feeling types were disturbed by the portrayal of God in Psalm 1 and sought ways to mitigate the stark message. The thinking types confronted the dangers to which this image of God could lead and sought pedagogic strategies for dealing with these dangers.
Highlights
Carl Jung’s model of the human psyche suggests that human mental functioning is shaped by two core processes
According to Jung’s binary model of mental functioning, the perceiving process operates through the two functions of sensing and intuition
According to Jung’s binary model of mental functioning, the judging process operates through the two functions of thinking and feeling
Summary
Carl Jung’s model of the human psyche suggests that human mental functioning is shaped by two core processes. According to Jung’s binary model of mental functioning, the perceiving process operates through the two functions of sensing and intuition. Intuitive types build up their picture of the world by giving attention to the patterns, theories and ideas sparked by the data. Jung styles the other process the judging process This is the rational process concerned with the evaluation of information. According to Jung’s binary model of mental functioning, the judging process operates through the two functions of thinking and feeling. As a consequence, thinking types and feeling types construct somewhat different evaluations of situations. Jung’s basic ideas about these two core psychological processes at the centre of human mental functioning were set out in his classic book on Psychological Type (Jung 1971) and have been expanded and developed through the various mechanisms devised to assess psychological type profiles and to test psychological type theories, like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Myers and McCaulley 1985)
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