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hybris theory
The following is a new theory of types, subtypes and quadras for socionics that came to my mind after some exchanges with the people on here. I’d like to have your views and would like to test this and possibly correct this, since you’re all more experienced in socionics than me, I’ll be very willing to hear of your inputs.
The whole idea turns around the fact that we hardly ever act and behave in the way our type wants us to behave in all the given occasions, especially when we’re stressed, depressed, or just not in the most favorable conditions, we tend to rely on some darker sides of our personality that are very different from our normal-healthy modus operandi; the idea behind my theory though is that every type will go through those phases in finite ways that are characteristic of each type, and to make things even more shaded, since we’re all complex and unique, even according to each temperament (DCHN) or said more simply, according to subtype (inert/contact).
The idea is actually pretty simple, because each type will be working with the modalities that every block of the Model A (2 elements that form a type) contains, so that each type will have 4 different modus operandi (4 types), one per block. The first block will be expressed in the most healthy conditions, when we're ok with the world and with ourself, we will take the characteristics of the 1st block; the second block is the way we assert ourselves when stressed; 4th block is instead about our opposite side, that comes out I think when we are highly inspired; and the 3rd block that I've left as last, remains the deepest block, that contains all that is hidden and that can probably be shown in the most private sides of our life.
Of course, every block can be read in 2 directions, from left to right for the 1st and 4th blocks, while the reading switches from right to the left for the mid blocks. This means that every type will have the possibility to operate between two different sets of 4 types, resulting in a total of 8 possible types that can be acted by each type, depending on the circumstances, but every person instead will act only following the 4 types inherent in his blocks.
The difference can be found by individuating your own subtype, if the subtype favors the inert function (the base), then the type will have at its disposition the 4 possibilities offered by the 4 blocks read in the standard order: 1, 2 = > ; 3, 4 = < ; 5, 6 = < ; 7, 8 = >. If instead your subtype is of the contact (creative) kind, the 4 possibilities offered by the 4 blocks will still be the same but they will be read in the opposite order: 1, 2 = < ; 3, 4 = > ; 5, 6 = > ; 7,8 = <.
A practical example: a IEE-Ne will present himself like a IEE, will act like a SLE when stressed, like a IEI when inspired and like a SLI when in the most intimate circumstances; instead a IEE-Fi will behave like a EII normally, like an LSI when stressed, like a EIE when inspired and like a SLE when in intimate circumstances (that will always be filtered by the type's main functions, so that we won't have a type switch, but a different approach to the situations that will resemble the other 3 types - superego, contrary, dual- but with the specific tints of the type).
This will consequently change the quadras that are now composed by the same 4 types found in every type. Taking the example of the IEE again, the quadra where it belongs will be made of: IEE, SLE, SLI and IEI. Basically each quadra contains the 2 duals, the super-ego and the contary, in this way every quadra will be balanced in its components and will contain a full view of all the main “healthy” functions.
The 4 new "quadras":
-IEE, SLI, SLE, IEI
-LSE, EII, EIE, LSI
-LIE, ESI, ESE, LII
-ILE, SEI, SEE, ILI
(thanks Bertrand)
Edit: I mistyped super-ego relationships for conflicting ones, corrected.