Legal Thinking: A Psychological Type Perspective
Izvleček
The main thesis of this article is that, in terms of Jungian psychological
typology, it is thinking and judging, rather than feeling and
perceiving, that are the predominant cognitive functions in the
legal world.
In terms of the auxiliary and tertiary cognitive functions, extraversion,
introversion, sensation, and intuition are special preferences
to the extent that they are important in different aspects of
various legal professions. Their role is to explain how thinking can
be different in view of different contexts of various legal professions.
Thus, in relation to legal practice thinking is more extraverted
than introverted, with the latter applying more to legal theory,
although we find introverts in legal practice as well as extraverts
in legal academia. Moreover, legal practice is more practically
oriented with the involvement of sensation as its main auxiliary
function. However, law is about a language that consists of many
concepts that as symbols must be appropriately translated into
meaningful reality. The importance of intuition as the next auxiliary
function follows from that.
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