Wu-Ki Tung discusses the "tensorial approach" to deriving all the finite-dimensional irreducible representations of GL(n, C) in chapter 13 of his book Group Theory in Physics claiming that all those representations can be constructed from the standard/defining representation over V, its dual representation V∗, its complex conjugate representation ˉV and its dual of the conjugate representation ˉV∗. My questions:
I. Are ˉV and ˉV∗ really necessary?
II. How is this "tensorial approach" related to and/or different from the construction using the Schur functor (See, e.g., Representation Theory: A First Course by Fulton and Harris) applied to V and/or V∗?