An early work (1934) in the study of fourfolds is James H. Cousins’ “A Study in Synthesis”, which is available for downloading at the link below.
Cousins’ key fourfold is
- Intuition
- Cognition
- Emotion
- Action
which is similar to Jung’s psychological types except Action replaces Sensation.
Each fourth also has two movements (passive and active), and two sub-movements (subjective and objective) (see Fig. 20):
- Intuition:
- Illumination
- Cosmic
- Individual
- Inspiration
- Creative Intention
- Creative Imagination
- Illumination
- Cognition:
- Contemplation (Philosophy)
- Metaphysical
- Pragmatical
- Observation (Science)
- Pure
- Applied
- Contemplation (Philosophy)
- Emotion:
- Aspiration (Religion)
- Mystical
- Cermonial
- Creation (Art)
- Idealistic
- Realistic
- Aspiration (Religion)
- Action:
- Organization
- Ideas
- Materials
- Execution
- Subjective
- Objective
- Organization
Cousins was an influence to Patrick Geddes, renowned as a town planner, who had several fourfolds of his own.
Further Reading:
James H. Cousins / A Study in Synthesis
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501469
James Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
http://hodgers.com/mike/patrickgeddes/feature.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cousins
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