The evolution of Ideas which lead to our current form of Socionics:
• Kant
⤷ Our phenomenal experience of the noumenal world is necessarily subjective.
• Schopenhauer
⤷ Describes proto types, like the difference between a skilled but uneducated pool player and a physicist who can mathematically define the pool ball collision but is not good at playing the game.
• Jung
⤷ Extrovert / Introvert
⤷ 4 psychological functions
⤷ 8 Psychological types from extroverted and introverted expression of the 4 psychological functions
⤷ Mention of an auxiliary function which balances the leading function
• Augusta
⤷ Applies the concept of information metabolism to Jung’s types
⤷ 8 information aspects from the part of the world Jung’s 8 types are attuned to.
⤷ Since these 8 aspects are objective parts of the world, all effect all psychological types
⤷ Creates Model A, which accounts for how each type metabolizes these 8 types of information. The leading function is the same as Jung, but the creative function must not only be the opposite rationality (the requirement Jung put on his auxilary function) but also the opposite orientation (intro/extro) of the leading function to balance the individual.
⤷ Creates theory of intertype relations from how different types handle the 8 information aspects.
• Reinin
⤷ Works with Augusta to mathematically expand the descriptive classes in socionics. These classes are dependent on Jung's original concepts and do not create new types.
⤷ Jung’s 4 dichotomies are expanded into 15 type dichotomies
⤷ Relational small groups of four types interacting together
• Gulenko
⤷ Works to better define the 15 type dichotomies
⤷ Creates new descriptive small groups based on Reinin’s structure.
⤷ Working on his own model layout which emphasizes (the model A equivalent of) the demonstrative function more, as well as how information is transformed within the psyche