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Carl Jung's definition of abstraction broadened its scope beyond the thinking process to include exactly four mutually exclusive, different complementary psychological functions: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.

Together they form a structural totality of the differentiating abstraction process.

Abstraction operates in one of these functions when it excludes the simultaneous influence of the other functions and other irrelevancies, such as emotion.

Abstraction requires selective use of this structural split of abilities in the psyche.

The opposite of abstraction is concretism.

Abstraction is one of Jung's 57 definitions in Chapter XI of Psychological Types.