Recent content by Syzygy

How should the "variant form" be indicated, with the 8 letters (or a subset of them), 4 temperaments, cognitive processes, all of them, or something else?

So, you're saying that the addition of the 6 remaining functions wasn't really an extension and that you could just as well derive them by taking into consideration the relativity of J/P and I/E (for N types)?

I thought the function order for the remaining 6 were the result of a logical extension of the principles (or should we say assumption?) that were implicit in the function order of the first 2? Are you saying that extension makes the MBTI less accurate? Maybe it's just that the MBTI can't...

How much of the function hierarchy of those 4 types are you using when you say that you see yourself as one of them? For example, when you see yourself as INFP, is it because you see yourself using "Fi Ne Si Te Fe Ni Se Ti", or "Fi Ne Si Te", "Fi Ne", or just "Fi"? Maybe the problem with the...

Is believing that you are your emotions, identifying with them and creating an identity around them a good thing?

Thanks for replying, Von Hase. How are the archetypes "simply a measure of our most common order of cognitive preference"? Let's take INFJs as an example, are you saying that INFJs will have the function order of "Ni Fe Ti Se Ne Fi Te Si" most of the time or that, among the INFJs, that...

So, what you're saying is that those theories fail to address the overlapping and adaptability of functions because they rely on 8 functions instead of the interconnections between them? How do functions work in tandem, and does that imply that we can only use 2 functions at the same time...

So, in your opinion, how do the functions overlap and adapt, and how do the theories you've seen fail to address this?

By compartmentalized, do you mean ignoring the influence functions can have on each other? I also don't really understand what you mean by "one function is one function and that's the extent of it". Could you explain a bit more about that?

What are some of the theories you find a little too cut and dried?

What are the type books/authors that you recommend?

So, you also disagree with her that Fe is a left brained function? What do you think about her other type descriptions? You've said that Jung thought Ni and Fe couldn't support each other. Where did he say that?

Have you read her book? By the way, are the function test results you posted above from this test?

Which functions are right brained, and which are left brained? Can you give a few examples of authors who don't define Fe properly, or at least those you had in mind while writing this post?

Well, about half a year ago, you typed me as INTP, saying that my Ti is strong. Just reminding you ;-)