Assuming that duals and conflictors both have issues with each other that need to be worked through due to their different strengths, duals and conflictors will both cause each other pain. What is the difference between pain inflicted by a dual and pain that comes from a conflictor? How does the pain experienced in duality, rather than cause destruction of the psyche, result in an increase in psychological health? What is it about the pain invoked by a conflictor that destroys?
Just some questions to consider and to promote discussion.


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In practice, I have seen that people within a type can have different "favorite/admired" functions that are not really predicted by the core Socionics theory (maybe it's related to subtypes and enneagram stuff). For example, one of my EII friends really loves Ne, and another really loves Fe. Personally I really favor Ni, so LSEs' polr ended up turning me off them. Somehow my use of Ni might've been a bit too similar to how an Ni ego might use it (too overt and lacking the subtlety of a typical demonstrative function), so they couldn't stomach my help in that area. Anyway, though this thread's topic really resonates with me due to my personal experiences, I am not sure if other EIIs have felt or would feel the same dual trauma as I have since they actually often just don't naturally get that close to LSEs.
