The inferior is your master, and you must adapt yourself to it.
Esther Harding – Conversations with Jung
Dr. Jung spoke of the inferior function being united to the collective: it is just a bit of nature and, as such, must first be accepted and adapted to …. The superior function is in your hands, and you can put it to your uses.
The inferior is your master, and you must adapt yourself to it.
Yet it is nature; there is life there.
The thing that wants to be born must first be found.
The form it is to grow into shall later be the object of search, and the search may be a long one …. ~Esther Harding, Conversations with Jung, Page 8
Intuition as a Superior and Inferior Function
C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950
Dr. Mann’s question: “Is it not by intuition that one arrives most easily at the transcendent function, and if a person is lacking in that function—that is, in intuition—are not the difficulties greatly increased?
Must one not reach the transcendent function alone, that is, unaided?”
Dr. Jung: It depends very much on the person’s type as to what part intuition plays in finding the transcendent function.
If the superior function is intuition, for example, then the intuitions are directly in the way, since the transcendent function is made, or takes place, between the superior and the inferior functions.
The inferior function can only come up at the expense of the superior, so that in the intuitive type the intuitions have to be overcome, so to speak, in order for the transcendent function to be found.
On the other hand, if the person is a sensation type, then the intuitions are the inferior function, and the transcendent function may be said to be arrived at through intuition.
It is a fact that in analysis it often seems as though intuition were the most important of the functions, but that is only so because analysis is a laboratory experiment and not reality. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 27
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