JOP24-25 Types of Consciousness

Section 9: Types of Consciousness

Class Dates: February 10, 24, March 3, 10, 2025

Instructors:  John Beebe, MD and Dorothy (Dee) Stump, MFT

John Beebe, a Jungian analyst and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is the author of Integrity in Depth and of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness. He is co-author, with Virginia Apperson, of The Presence of the Feminine in Film, and co-editor, with Ernst Falzeder, of The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan. He has written the preface to the recent Routledge Classics edition of Jung's 1921 book, Psychological Types. He has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film. His eight-function, eight-archetype model of type is widely studied and applied. 

Dorothy (Dee) Stump is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Albany, California with interests in the ways in which individual and relational consciousness is accessed through creativity, neurodiversity, and psychological types, and the interplay between them. She was the director of the program for learning disabled/neurodiverse students at UC Berkeley and a consultant to women and employees of color through Pacific Management Systems. Dorothy has taught courses in addiction and cognitive/leaning styles at U.C. Berkeley Extension, Alameda County Community Colleges and Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Her artwork has been published in the Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche and exhibited at the International Dream Conference. 

Description:

In 1934, Jung wrote that the purpose of his work on psychological types was not to sort people into categories but as “a critical apparatus” to “organize the welter [confusion] of empirical material” that comes up when one plumbs the psyche. The psychological types, then, are not types of people, but types of consciousness. In this course, we will learn to differentiate the eight types of consciousness that Jung identified: extraverted sensation, introverted sensation, extraverted intuition, introverted intuition, extraverted thinking, introverted thinking, extraverted feeling, and introverted feeling.  We will also explore what Jung meant by the terms rational and irrational as well as extraverted and introverted as qualities of consciousness. Using clips from classic films, clinical vignettes and personal experiences we will practice learning how to recognize the types of consciousness. Finally, we will become familiar with our individual and familial types, and see how the types relate to common archetypal roles that each of us, at one time or another, take up.