A Guide to Typing Yourself and Others

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This information has been pulled from Ausra's "The Duality of Man" which can be viewed here and here. I have pulled what I felt to be the most important distinctions between each dichotomy, as things can get fuzzy and are not so cut and dry when viewing types holistically.


1) Extroversion v. Introversion

• Extroverts have the tendency to change the outside world for the sake of the subject. They have the tendency to take care of subjects and objects by changing their relations, whereas an Introvert has the tendency to change subjects and objects for the sake, and benefit, of the relations between them.
  
• For an Extrovert, subjects and objects are the constant of the outside world. For an Introvert, this constant is found in the relations between subjects and objects and the feelings caused by these relations. An Extrovert prioritizes the individual’s psychophysical self, while an Introvert prioritizes relations.
  
• An Extrovert creates new relations and new feelings about:

• The logical and illogical (Ti),
  
• The ethical and unethical (Fi),
  
• The aesthetic and non-aesthetic (Si), and
  
• The timely and untimely (Ni).

• An Introvert’s creativity leads to the emergence of new subjects and objects with:

• New qualities (Se),
  
• New constructions (Ne),
  
• New kinds of emotional experiences and inner excitation (Fe), and
  
• Qualitatively new methods of work (Te).

• The above is due to an Extrovert’s creative, producing, function being Introverted, and an Introvert’s creative, producing function, Extroverted. However, everything is the other way around when it is necessary to reproduce some kind of already existing samples; something that has already been invented or existed somewhere. This corresponds to an Extrovert’s/Introvert’s leading, accepting, function.
  
• In a group, an Extrovert pays attention to others and is bored if there is no one to pay attention to. An Introvert draws attention to themself, they are bored when no one notices them.
  
• Extroverts are constructive, active, and have a strong need to achieve a goal. Introverts, even when active, avoid trouble and failure. An Extrovert is dissatisfied with not having done more, and an Introvert feels bad after having done something that proves unnecessary in retrospect.

2) Logic v. Ethics

• The strength of Ethical types manifests in relation to people, while the strength of Logical types manifests in relation to the objective world.
  
• A Logical type tries to prove the fact that other people need them through actions. An Ethical type feels that others need them, knowing how to build relationships with others and how to manipulate others’ feelings or emotions.
  
• Independence of Logical types manifests in solving problems and challenges of the objective world. The independence of Ethical types manifests in solving problems of human relationships and regulating others’ emotional life.
  
• Ethics of Logical types are normative. They strictly follow the ethical norms established by someone else and do not allow themselves any creativity in this area of their lives. Ethics of all Ethical types are creative, they focus on the specific situation more than on the norms. The ethical is what improves an Ethical type’s situation, makes them more charismatic, more needed, and stronger among other people.
  
• Logic of Ethical types is normative. They strictly follow logical norms and care a lot about what is scientific or at least commonly accepted. They do not discover or invent new logical relations or methods of action. For this reason, they tend to be more well-read than Logical types, having a wide range of logical interests, and are good at describing and presenting various scientific facts. Logical types are usually well-read in fiction, which gives them the opportunity to learn ethical norms.
  
• Feelings of a Logical type are more stable due to the fact that they need more time to examine their feelings through logical reasoning before making a decision. An Ethical type is not afraid of any feelings, whether love or hatred. They replace one feeling with another, without giving up the feeling itself.
  
• Logical types have a tendency to pretend to be strong and capable of helping others at any moment, even when it is more than they can handle. Ethical types have a tendency to pretend to be weaker than they actually are.

3) Sensation v. Intuition

• Sensoric types feel their physical self and its needs very precisely, and have a pronounced rhythm of life. They lack a sense of foresight and rely on their own strength and volition. When extroverted, they are too active and make their own life more difficult; when introverted, they are too passive and afraid of making mistakes.
  
• Sensations of Intuitive types are not vivid enough, so they are constantly absent-minded. They do not perceive their physical self clearly and are only certain of their materiality when looking in the mirror.
  
• Sensoric types are attentive to all their physical needs as they consider them an integral part of their physical self. Attraction is an inalienable right to self-realization and a means of influencing others. For an Intuitive type, attraction, much like their concrete surroundings and their own physical self, is something unreliable, something they cannot fully sense. For this reason they are always unsure and doubtful.
  
• A Sensoric type needs their partner to be consistent and to have a particular type of dependence; tameness.
  
• In a relationship, the Sensoric type is usually the jealous one as they judge solely based on experience. This jealousy actually affects the Intuitive type positively, as it confirms their materiality and that they are needed, desired, and irreplaceable. The Intuitive type knows nothing will change based on their partner’s random actions.
  
• Sensoric types understand their own material interests and how to defend them. An Intuitive type waits for what is left behind by others.
  
• An Intuitive type’s “sensation” is normative. They strictly adhere to established aesthetic norms and are not ready to be radical in this area. However, if they have direction from a Sensoric type, they can achieve perfection and outdo their Sensoric “aesthetic directors” in this area of their life.
  
• A Sensoric type has a normative “intuition” so they are exceptionally careful when it comes to the use of their time, potential energy, and the potentialities of objects, subjects, and phenomena. Sensoric types are “tacticians” while Intuitive types are “strategists.”
  
• These above norms apply to a sense of wellbeing. Sensoric types trust their sensations. If they were feeling unwell and went to a doctor, who found “nothing,” they would go to a different doctor. Intuitive types would take the doctor’s diagnosis as gospel as their own sensations seem less objective to them.

4) Rationality v. Irrationality

• An Irrational type’s emotions are more impulsive and less controllable than a Rational type’s.
  
• An Irrational type’s movements, actions, and emotions are always a consequence of some feeling and a particular mental state. They need some time to “get going” internally and only after that do they react to a situation with an emotion or an action. They do not immediately react to others’ emotions and actions, they react to their own feelings evoked by others’ emotions and actions. As a result, they do a lot of things simply “out of habit.”
  
• Rational types react to an emotion with an emotion and an action with an action, right away, without having to “get going” first. Feeling for a Rational type is a consequence of an action rather than its cause; after a correct action they feel better and after an incorrect action, they feel worse.
  
• An Irrational type acts to exit some kind of situation or mental state, and a Rational type acts when they need to create a particular mental state.
  
• However, when it comes to interacting with subjects and objects, the opposite of the above is true. A Rational type cannot communicate with a person until they feel something for that person. Irrational types start communication without “getting going” and only after communicating do they form feelings and attitudes towards people.
  
• A Rational type easily and “rationally” changes their actions and manifestations of emotions if they prove not to be reasonable enough. An Irrational type changes people they interact with if the qualities of these people do not meet their needs. The same is true for household items and other objects.

5) Static v. Dynamic

• The mental ring of a Static type is oriented to the object’s form and inner content, to needs and desires. The mental ring of a Dynamic type is oriented to what is happening to the object and within the object, and to the object’s situation in time and space.
  
• Thinking of a Static type is characterized by mentally stopping all movement. Thinking of a Dynamic type is only activated after one manages to imagine a static object as moving.
  
• A Static type thinks and talks about the static aspects of the external world, but their vital ring is Dynamic, so they are usually more mobile than a Dynamic type.
  
• A Dynamic type thinks and talks about the world of dynamics, but through their vital ring they tend to remain in a static, low-mobility life. Their own activity is cautious, “wait and see.” They only act when they are certain that no one else can do a task, either there is no one to delegate the task to, no one can be trusted with the task, or no one is up for the task. A Dynamic type talks a lot about what exactly should or should not be done. Their goal is to mentally activate and program other people.
  
• An individual’s life goals are in the static ring, while the methods and ways of achieving them are in the dynamic ring. This is why Static types have all kinds of goals, but their problem is with the methods. The opposite is true for Dynamic types; they have problems with their goals but have all types of methods.
  
• Every Static type knows what people want or do not want (Fi), what they need (Ti), their latent potential capabilities, abilities, and inner strength (Ne), their apparent, present kinetic capabilities, willpower, ability to become mobilized and mobilize others (Se).
  
• Every Dynamic type knows what enlivens people, what cools them down (Fe), and how to achieve it; why they refrain from acting, what they are capable of in their own activity and work (Te), and how to make them work; what is pleasant or unpleasant for them (Si); what they consider timely or untimely (Ni).

[Sol]

In case is wanted to type correctly:

1) don't use baseless hypotheses as Reinin traits.
2) For theory and practice is better to look popular books as by Filatova, as those were written based on years of lectures. When Augustinavhichiute's style is to fantasy as much as possibly based on nothing and then to write that quickly until critical thinking have not stoped you. As this approach lasted for >10 years, the chance to produce something useful appeared as enough to make an idea about complementary/opposing functional variants. 99% of other her ideas were either banal or can be forgotten.
3) To understand dichotomies is useful to look dichotomy tests. And initial Jung's definitions.