ooh rosewood do me
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
Never read of Soc explained this way. Interesting!
(the powerpuff girls emoticons have been tempting me for quite some time )
Great article. If this is true I must be Sp: "time as a resource: how you use it, accounting for it ... time being scarce, time always running out"; And So second: "ability to adapt behavior".
EDIT: It could be the other way round.
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Sp/sx seems to be a good match for me. Insightful thread.
i've found the original thread and "chrios" turned out to be a misspelling of "kairos". i was getting all excited about chrios after seeing the translation of its variant as "the anointed one" and thinking it's some kind of new and very special interpretation of sx but nope.
"kairos" to me felt like a static interpretation of sx instinct i.e. that every moment is the opportune or the supreme one when everything happens, "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved" as per wikipedia - that's not quite the IP perception of the flow of time. i'm guessing this must have been referring to the emotional elation that accompanies such moments because i cannot relate to the rest of it
I interpreted kairos as a qualitative view of time, compared to chronos where every minute is treated equally in an endless sea of minutes. It places a weighted value on some portions of time more than others, like a climax in a film where all the potential energy catalyzes and reacts in the final showdown. I figure this value is only experienced subjectively and can't be quantified through any directly observable means.
Hmmm after reading all the various stuff on sx/sp - sp/sx and getting some input from a couple of people, who have known me for years, I can't see any reason to change my self typing but I appreciate all the info shared. There is so much out there based on people's own perception of the instincts but nothing really "official" to compare with. This is a good summary though.
SX Instinct
~ spends energy a lot (contrast with sp conserving)
~ "intelligence of the evolutionary process" / the drive to evolve / the sx instinct is what "attracts us to go beyond what's comfortable for us"
~ doesn't care about comfort; makes us leave the comfort zone to explore new things
~ throwing caution to the wind and going for it
~ attraction: what we're attracted to and what we attract / magnetism (and its opposite, repulsion)
~ display/showing off to get the other interested
~ on the most refined level, sx is the fuel for choosing to grow/evolve (e.g. inner work)
~ Russ differentiated between "liking" or "being inspired" vs. being "turned on"/aroused. the sx instinct is about turning-on/arousal. (my comment, think about the irresistible pull implied by "magnetism")
~ when we are tuned into the sx energy, we're more aware of the energy itself (e.g. the sense of arousal) than "the relationship" / a sense that the energy is pushing us into certain behaviors / sense of being compelled toward something (again, the flip side of this is revulsion, being compelled away from something)
~ sx makes you feel more alive, vigorous
~ awareness of "kairos" time - sense of it being the right time for something in a qualitative sense
~ fear is of not "getting to something" (climax, literally and figuratively), restlessness, sense that your life is, or needs to be, moving toward some kind of climax
~ a danger of sx-first is going out of control, "flaming out"/volatility
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
I'm too sx-y for my type.
I'm too Sx-ey for my own Sx
My whole family is Sp-primary. They just don't understand
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung