Topic summary
Abstract thinking
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Abstraction.
In psychology
There is an abstract thinking, just as there is abstract feeling, sensation and intuition. Abstract thinking singles out the rational, logical qualities ... Abstract feeling does the same with... its feeling-values. ...I put abstract feelings on the same level as abstract thoughts. ...Abstract sensation would be aesthetic as opposed to sensuous sensation and abstract intuition would be symbolic as opposed to fantastic intuition. (Jung, [1921] (1971): par. 678).