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    Narcissism, Sociopathy and the INFJ

    Apparently the phenomenon of narcissism is in no way specific to INFJs... "Bolognese can be prone to small dog syndrome, human induced behaviors where the dog believes he is pack leader to humans. This can cause behavior programs including separation anxiety and timidity."
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    Narcissism, Sociopathy and the INFJ

    And don't the complexes in question often spring from a deep-seated sense of inferiority? Power is a means by which the deeply personal subjective can be sublimated into an externalized objective, with a discrete measure of number of people controlled, battles won. I'm not saying that all...
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    Ah, I only jest. Unlike sadists, I don't combine the serious and snarky.

    Ah, I only jest. Unlike sadists, I don't combine the serious and snarky.
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    Narcissism, Sociopathy and the INFJ

    On research, all of the disorders in the so-called "sociopathic spectrum" (encompassing narcissism, sociopathy, borderline personality) are grounded in a weak sense of self. (INFJs are considered to be among the most impressionable or chameleonic of the types.) A false identity is projected into...
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    Narcissism, Sociopathy and the INFJ

    For those unfamiliar with the specifics of these personality complexes/biological tendencies, this may help: http://sociopathicstyle.com/continuum/psychopathic.htm Anyways, the resemblences I see between different facets of the INFJ (seen as an archetype or a biochemistry or, as consensus seems...
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    INFJs: What does 'fun' mean to you?

    To patch a hole in the frivolity generator inside my mad science lab, please elaborate. You will be recompensed in stardust.
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    services have been performed, my lad. what is your recompense?

    services have been performed, my lad. what is your recompense?
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    Instrumental Music

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjYV7lJezvc
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    What books/stories have made a difference in your life?

    Steppenwolf, Hesse -- graciously unfetters and illuminates the INFJ typology, as well as the desires and proclivities of mortal man Mademoiselle de Maupin, Gautier (translated by Constantine) -- a pleasurable tale of ideal-seeking, adorned with lush, succulent prose
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    Should Art be Beautiful?

    Good art unveils the layers of prejudice and vain conjecture our natures are cloaked in. It enables us to see, in a less obscured light, who we really are as humans -- our natures, our desires, our views of society at large. So, in the sense that beauty depicts an ideal form, unfettered by a...