Psychological Types in Freud and Jung

Both Freud and Jung developed "typologies"-Freud's, a typology of character; Jung's, a typology of consciousness. These typologies emerged in the midst of intense self-exploration involving great integrity on the part of the pioneers who gathered their impressions as much as possible from direct contact with actual psychic material. Both men engaged deeply with the part of the psyche that Jung was to call the anima, which was prominent in Freud's dream of self-dissection and in Jung's The Red Book. The author suggests that this groundedness in the psyche's own reality accounts for the impressive durability of their typological formulations.