Jung Typology has 8 main types, however it does actually have a total of 141 types if we consider all degrees of differentiation (considering Chapter X and the ‘psychopathology’ chapter) in all domains (E/I and functions, with primary and secondary functions), but I will only list the 31 types, and in Jung terms, only 16 are considered ‘ideal’ and healthy. Jung does have degrees of differentiation, but not stages of differentiation, but I think that explaining stages of differentiation aids clarity for the whole theory. What people usually say out there on Jung typology as ‘stage of development’ is some sort of a distorted version (with some good modifications and some modifications that goes against Jung typology) of what in Jung typology is called ‘differentiation process’ and I will distort it a bit for the sake of clarity as ‘stages of differentiation’. Notice that these stages are approximately, but not exactly, equal in terms of differentiation. Introverted types are slightly more differentiated than extroverted types as stated by Jung, and I do have the impression that people who are have a E/I attitude with no secondary function differentiation are more differentiated than people who have a secondary function but has no E/I attitude type (or which the E/I attitude type is the undifferentiated type)
STAGE 1: In this stage, the person is completely undifferentiated. Here, we have the undifferentiated type, although for Jung undifferentiated is a state, not a type. Jung considers this state to be primitive, archaic, and it is the initial point of Jung typology. In this stage, a person has a very weak or non-existent sense of self. Most people on this stage are on enneagram 6, with some on enneagram 9, and ‘score’ as these on the enneagram test.
Types:
– U type (undifferentiated type)
STAGE 2: In this stage, there is either the rise of the first function or the rise of an attitude (E or I), while the other parts keep undifferentiated. The person is mostly reactive but still have a kind of preference. In this stage, the person has a weak sense of self. Types:
– E type (the Extraverted type)
– I type
– N type
– S type
– T type
– F type
STAGE 3: In this stage, the person either have a clear primary function with a clear E/I attitude or a clear primary function and a secondary function without a clear E/I attitude. In this case, there is a moderate-good sense of self. This is the stage where the 8 main types of the Chapter X are, however this stage has two divisions, and in this case we can divide healthy vs unhealthy. Healthy types does have a moderate primary function and moderate E/I attitude; Unhealthy and ‘distorted’ types have a very strong/long primary function and a very strong E/I attitude, and this makes them overly rigid. For example, a type with a too strong N function and with a very high Introversion will be a lot Schyzotypal, weird, eccentric, unable to communicate like is talking on an ancient language, etc…. All types on Chapter X are on this stage and are on the unhealthy category, they all have a long primary function and a strong E or I attitude, and that is why they are ‘distorted’ and they are not common along people nor healthy, but they serve very well to describe the types. Types:
– Ne type (extraverted intuitive type)
– Ni type
– Se type
– Si type
– Fe type
– Fi type
– Te type
– Ti type
– N-t type (intuitive type with auxiliary thinking and no E/I attitude, ambivert)
– N-f type
– S-t type
– S-f type
– T-n type
– T-s type
– F-n type
– F-s type
STAGE 4: This is the last stage. On this stage,a person has a defined E/I attitude, a clear primary function and a clear secondary function. This is the desired stage for MBTI (plus a clear preference for J or P) and the ideal stage for Jung. In this stage a person is quite differentiated and healthy when the person has a moderate E/I attitude, a moderate primary function and a moderate secondary function – this is what Jung considers as ideal and healthy and, lets say, ‘mature’, although that is really forcing the ‘mature’ word. And this is the ‘fully developed’ stage, however this is also forcing the word ‘develop’ quite a bit. If the person has a long/too strong primary function or long/too strong secondary function or long/too strong E/I attitude, then the person is unhealthy. When the person has these 3 things simultaneously, you have a fully differentiated type, however a fully differentiated type is very unhealthy and the majority, if not all of them, does have one or more personality disorders. A fully differentiated type has a very black and white approach to life, is overly ‘rigid’ (which is the opposite of the ‘flexibility’ of the undifferentiated type), so, for example, a full differentiated Ni-T or Ti-N (actually, this is the exceptional case where the secondary function has a clear E/I orientation, so its a Ni-Ti or Ti-Ni) is basically completely lacking social ‘skills’, desires, etc, always avoiding people at all costs, is a completely sensor-tard and very prone to fantasy and ‘magical thinking’, completely ignores his/her feelings because everything needs to be fully logic, lacking empathy and etc. Some super exaggerated stereotypes are from this stage as well (this is a good stage to create type memes as well lol). Types (these are the 16 types):
– Ne-f (Extraverted Intuitive type with auxiliary feeling)
– Ne-t
– Ni-f
– Ni-t
– Se-t
– Se-f
– Si-t
– Si-f
– Te-n
– Te-s
– Ti-n
– Ti-s
– Fe-n
– Fe-s
– Fi-n
– Fi-s
Things to observe:
– The moderate E or moderate I applies on the primary function and in general terms, but not on the other functions, including in terms of healthyness. So, for example, a N function with a very high preference for E generates an intuitive function that has a very rigid E attitude, becoming one sided in terms of its E/I attitude. An ‘introverted’ secondary function does not compensates this.
– Jung believes that all people are supposed to develop and have a sort of innate preference, so there is some implicit notion that people should ‘differentiated their secondary function’, their primary function, etc… and some people switch the word ‘differentiated’ for ‘development’. However, undifferentiation does NOT actually means lack of development. A person with an undifferentiated function does not necessarily have an “undeveloped function” or a function that is ‘struggling development’, even inside Jung typology where there is the implicit (and wrong) notion that preferences equal skills. The person simply does have either N/S functions (if primary T or F) or T/F functions (if primary S or N) mixed, reactive and adaptive, or in other words, undifferentiated.
– Jung believes that no one is in-born undifferentiated and no one has innate undifferentiated, in every terms, meaning that everyone is supposed to differentiate until stage 4, and this is actually a Personality Development (not skill development, that is an entirely different thing). Jung thinks that the undifferentiated type is primitive. However, besides Jung’s view, nothing else proves or point that this is actual true. I did evaluate this through the enneagram and reading about cognitive flexibility and flexibility in psychology and in no way the undifferentiated type is primitive, but rather primitive conditions (aka having to survive on the forest) generates the undifferentiated type. And it seems that this notion of the primitiveness and retard development of the undifferentiated type should be false when environment conditions are controlled, and some people likely does have an innate lack of preference, even though a person that fully lacks preferences should be rare or very rare.
Typology Triad 