Yeah.
I generally agree, but I've never really had that problem with beta STs.Either way, it seems like the LSE didn't really get the point. That's more likely with STs than NFs in my experience, especially with something like poetry. (This doesn't apply with SLE literary critics like Harold Bloom really.)
It's something I've observed happening the most when two Ni-egos converse. For example, the first time I met an old EIE friend at a gathering, he and I ended up together alone on the balcony, smoking cigarettes. There was a brief silence, and then he said something like, "I wonder if the rain drops can see themselves on the way down." which sparked a two minute poetic discourse. The point is that we just "knew" what the other was saying without needing it to be made explicit. I've never had this with Si-valuers.When you say that Ni valuers can more easily align their subjective context with another person, do you mean that they can see life through someone else's perspective more easily? I'm wondering if that's the case, and if so, what the consequences of that are.
I'm not saying one can't draw external parallels to metaphors that bear on their meaning, but in this case it was intended as self-contained/standalone. And he wasn't really alluding to any "personal evolution" in his commentary.