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Hi all,
I was wondering about something. If you have an emotional problem (you 'feel' something), do you tend to downplay it in order to minimise its effect on you, or do you tend to make it more 'real' in order to properly analyse it and 'solve' it?
We might refer to these two approaches as 'hypostatising' (make more real, cool word), and 'non-hypostatising' (make less real).
E.g. A person who hypostatises things might say 'right, I feel a certain way, I need to ruminate on this and/or talk about it', whereas a non-hypostatising person might say 'right, I'm not going to give any weight to this silly thought. I'm going to avoid saying it out loud or thinking about it, and at some point it will just evaporate'.
What do you guys think? Any analyses in terms of MBTI (Te/Fe difference?) or attachment styles (anxious/avoidant difference?) would be cool.
I was wondering about something. If you have an emotional problem (you 'feel' something), do you tend to downplay it in order to minimise its effect on you, or do you tend to make it more 'real' in order to properly analyse it and 'solve' it?
We might refer to these two approaches as 'hypostatising' (make more real, cool word), and 'non-hypostatising' (make less real).
E.g. A person who hypostatises things might say 'right, I feel a certain way, I need to ruminate on this and/or talk about it', whereas a non-hypostatising person might say 'right, I'm not going to give any weight to this silly thought. I'm going to avoid saying it out loud or thinking about it, and at some point it will just evaporate'.
What do you guys think? Any analyses in terms of MBTI (Te/Fe difference?) or attachment styles (anxious/avoidant difference?) would be cool.