Type-related weakness and individual maturity
I was going to post this in my reply in the hidden agenda thread, but thought I'd start a new thread instead.
I've been wondering lately, although I don't have any evidence to back it up at the moment - do type weaknesses necessarily remain weaknesses in the way they're portrayed, as the individual matures? i.e. would a healthy, mature individual of a given type, especially with some life experience behind them also, have better control over their weaknesses (for lack of a better way of describing it) as compared with the same individual before they'd reached that level of maturity?
I'm specifically thinking things like the super-ego functions - although they might not become "strong" in the same way as one's ego-functions are strong, do they become less of a problem as one gets older and matures, provided one is wise enough to learn from their mistakes?
Re: Type-related weakness and individual maturity
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Originally Posted by BLauritson
I was going to post this in my reply in the hidden agenda thread, but thought I'd start a new thread instead.
I've been wondering lately, although I don't have any evidence to back it up at the moment - do type weaknesses necessarily remain weaknesses in the way they're portrayed, as the individual matures? i.e. would a healthy, mature individual of a given type, especially with some life experience behind them also, have better control over their weaknesses (for lack of a better way of describing it) as compared with the same individual before they'd reached that level of maturity?
I'm specifically thinking things like the super-ego functions - although they might not become "strong" in the same way as one's ego-functions are strong, do they become less of a problem as one gets older and matures, provided one is wise enough to learn from their mistakes?
in a word, yes. this is what i've been saying all along. you kind learn how to reduce the weakness of the super ego functions. in this fashion, you bring them up to some kind of level of acceptability.