A SYSTEMS-APPROACH TO STUDIES OF CREATIVITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Carl Gustav Jung envisioned the human personality as a system with ver tical and horizontal dimensions. The former had to do with depth, whil e the latter can be understood as a coordinate system with four quadra nts, or functions, each representing both a psychological process and a personality type in which it is dominant. These functions are termed sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition. Several investigators hav e found that pairs of these functions are useful to describe four typi cal types of social scientists. These are termed the sensing-thinking or Analytical Scientist, the intuition-thinking or Conceptual Theorist , the intuition-feeling or Conceptual Humanist, and the sensing-feelin g or the Particular Humanist. Each is described using examples of scie ntists from the fields of creativity and consciousness studies, and su ggestions are offered for the implementation of this model. (C) 1998 J ohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.