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  1. Essential terms

Essential terms

Libido — an abstract concept of psychic energy.

Attitude — direction of libido’s flow.

Introversion — the attitude that focuses on the subject.

Extraversion — the attitude that focuses on the object.

Function — a group of mechanisms of the brain playing a role in cognition.

Function-attitude — an aspect of a function corresponding to the extraverted or the introverted attitude.

Archetype — an evolutionary aspect of the psyche that serves as a placeholder for information.

Psychological type — a description of function-attitudinal roles, representing the brain’s survival strategy, chosen presumably in the period between infancy and puberty. It’s not a personality (nor something changeable overall) and not a measure of intellect.