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The reasonableness that characterizes the conscious management of life in both these types,
involves a conscious exclusion of the accidental and non-rational. Reasoning judgment, in such a
psychology, represents a power that coerces the untidy and accidental things of life into definite
forms; such at least is its aim. Thus, on the one hand, a definite choice is made among the
possibilities of life, since only the rational choice is consciously accepted; but, on the other hand,
the independence and influence of those psychic functions which perceive life's happenings are
essentially restricted. This limitation of sensation and intuition is, of course, not absolute. These
functions exist, for they are universal; but their products are subject to the choice of the
reasoning judgment. It is not the absolute strength of sensation, for instance, which turns the
scales in the motivation of action, but judgment, Thus, in a certain sense, the perceiving-
functions share the same fate as feeling in the case of the first type, or thinking in that of the
second. They are relatively repressed, and therefore in an inferior state of differentiation. This
circumstance gives a particular stamp to the unconscious [p. 455] of both our types; what such
men do consciously and intentionally accords with reason (their reason of course), but what
happens to them corresponds either with infantile, primitive sensations, or with similarly archaic
intuitions. I will try to make clear what I mean by these latter concepts in the sections that
follow. At all events, that which happens to this type is irrational (from their own standpoint of
course). Now, since there are vast numbers of men whose lives consist in what happens to them
more than in actions resulting from reasoned intention, it might conceivably happen, that such a
man, after careful analysis, would describe both our types as irrational. We must grant him,
however, that only too often a man's unconscious makes a far stronger impression upon one than
his conscious, and that his actions often have considerably more weight and meaning than his
reasoned motivations.
The rationality of both types is orientated objectively, and depends upon objective data. Their
reasonableness corresponds with what passes as reasonable from the collective standpoint.
Subjectively they consider nothing rational save what is generally considered as such. But reason
is also very largely subjective and individual. In our case this share is repressed -- increasingly
so, in fact, the more the significance of the object is exalted, Both the subject and subjective
reason, therefore, are always threatened with repression and, when it descends, they fall under
the tyranny of the unconscious, which in this case possesses most unpleasant qualities. We have
already spoken of its thinking. But, in addition, there are primitive sensations, which reveal
themselves in compulsive forms, as, for instance, an abnormal compulsive pleasure seeking in
every conceivable direction ; there are also primitive intuitions, which can become a positive
torture to the individuals concerned, not to mention their entourage. Everything disagreeable and
painful, everything disgusting, [p. 456] ugly, and evil is scented out or suspected, and these as a
rule only correspond with half-truths, than which nothing is more calculated to create
misunderstandings of the most poisonous kind. The powerful influence of the opposing
unconscious contents necessarily brings about a frequent interruption of the rational conscious
government, namely, a striking subservience to the element of chance, so that, either by virtue of
their sensational value or unconscious significance, accidental happenings acquire a compelling
influence.
6. Sensation
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