Carl Jung, in his analysis of the structure of the psyche, has distinguished four psychological functions that link us to the outer world. These are sensation, thinking, feeling, and intuition.

Sensation, he states, is the function that tells us that something exists;

thinking, the function that tells us what it is; eg. A pen, 🖊️ think about it without thinking it’s name and uses.

feeling, the function that evaluates its worth to us; eg.people use it to choose his/her beloved one.

and intuition, the function that enables us to estimate the possibilities inherent in the object or its situation.eg.Suppose there are two different paths in the jungle,then an intuitive person gets a hunch that this route is safe.

Feeling, thus, is the inward guide to value; but its judgments are related normally to outward, empirical circumstance.

Four basic psychological functions by which we apprehend and evaluate all experiences.

Sensation and intuition, which are the apprehending functions.

Thinking and feeling, which are the function of judgement and evaluation.

The wonderful thing about symbology is that it includes all four functions. Jung speaks of a fifth, in the center, that he calls “the transcendent function.