Originally Posted by
wesleh00
This is also a problem I have in relation to Gulenko. However, I don't agree with how you phrase it. For me, it becomes a recursive battle of questioning premises.
After all, you might be the one "stuck in your ways," or Gulenko might be "stuck in his ways," or "you might be stuck in your ways thinking Gulenko is stuck in his ways," or "Gulenko might be stuck in his ways thinking you're stuck in your ways thinking that he is stuck in his ways," and so on and so fourth.
I think I most relate to what people were saying earlier in the thread in relation to his authority over typing people, or his diagnostic becoming a "trump card."
In my experiences after receiving LSI-CN; I feel a sense of guilt if I waver and question his conclusion, almost like how a child might feel guilty if they disobey dad. I don't think Gulenko realizes this quasai "father-figure" dynamic he has in the realm of Socionics.
Dad sets the rules, the laws, the symbolic domain to interpret the world through, and we really want to listen to dad, to believe him; but at the same time, dad doesn't necessarily understand our needs, our desires, our wants, we feel castrated (forced to give up something) by dad and guilty if we do not abide to his set (of rules, laws, etc.).
In the grand-scheme of things, though Dad has provided a sort of baseline, we also need to trod forward and forge our own symbolic domain, to experience and create our own rules and schematics to live our "fullest but within reason," lives.