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    Ik might seem like a stupid question lol but why 16? Why not more or maybe it's something else. Socionics is just a system trying to explain things or am i getting it wrong?

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    I remember reading an article which explained that once.

    This video doesn't explain 16 types, but it does explain 8 types. Maybe someone better versed in history knows how you get from 8 to 16.




    A transcript of the video appears below the spoiler. I just copied and pasted it under the spoiler, so the formatting is bad. Sorry, but I don't have the knowledge required to make it look better.



    A Jungian Analyst Talks About
    Psychological Types: A Visit
    with John Beebe - DVD (transcript online below)
    You can see this video for free on youtube at:
    A Jungian Analyst Talks about Psychological Types
    59 Minutes.

    DVD $19.95
    CD from DVD $5.95

    John Beebe, M.D., is a Jungian analyst, editor of the San Francisco Jung Library Journal, co-editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and an expert on Jung's psychological types.
    While many people have become familiar with psychological types as a way of examining the differences between people, Dr. Beebe has been pioneering their use intrapsychically as a way to explore the depths of the psyche.
    Trained at the Jung Institute in San Francisco with its strong tradition of interest in typology, in this wonderfully informal interview he gives us an intimate glimpse of what this neglected dimension of typology looks like in practice. He explains how his analysands often come to their own insights into their psychological types, and how he, himself, discovered the importance of dreams through his own depression, and encountered his own anima in the form of a Chinese laundress. And he deals with related questions about types and archetypes, and types and the inferior function.
    Online Transcript:
    Hi. I’m Jim Arraj, and today we are going to visit John Beebe, a San Francisco Jungian analyst and an expert on Jung’s psychological types.
    John Beebe: Well, I’m John Beebe, and I am a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco where I have actually been in the practice of psychotherapy since 1971. In addition to my private practice I do quite a bit of consultation and teaching, much at the Jung Institute in San Francisco where I received my own training as a Jungian analyst. I have been a Jungian analyst since 1978. I am the editor of two journals: the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, and also the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
    I was very fortunate in my training as a Jungian analyst to get a lot of exposure to the theory of psychological types. First of all, the Jung Institute of San Francisco was founded by Joe Wheelwright who, with his wife, Jane Wheelwright, and Horace Gray created the test which is known today as the Gray-Wheelwright Test, which is a rather simpler paper and pencil type test than the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and was the local product of choice. All of us had exposure to it and usually took the test. Joe Wheelwright, himself, was an absolutely marvelous teacher of psychological types. I still remember a talk he gave in the fall of 1971 about psychological types. It was so splendid. I still remember him. He just created it out of whole cloth. It now exists. One can order it from the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, but I recall him saying wonderful things. My favorite was a little poem that went:
    E is for extravert, fairest that lives,
    whom the introvert never forgets nor forgives.
    There were many, many lovely moments in times when he explained – he used to say things like, "Well, now, you all know about getting your feelings hurt, but some of us who are heavy feeling types, we get our thinkings hurt." And he would just teach type in that marvelous, down-home way. He had a wonderful routine about how he was one, like Joe Henderson, who had a Jungian analysis with Jung long before he had any professional sense of direction. They were just duty, pueri aeterni, that had gone to Zurich because the wise old man was there, and were living off either inherited money, or on the bum, with occasional newspaper jobs and the like, and had no real sense of direction, and then they got into their analysis, and then got to saying, "Gee, this is so interesting. I’d like to be a Jungian analyst." Jung had to say, "Look, here. If you want to be serious about being a Jungian analyst, you are going to have to go to medical school, and you are going to have to be a doctor, and you are going to have to show some sense of responsibility before people can respect you and trust you with their psyches." So Jung was able to cure both Joe Henderson and Joe Wheelwright of their puer problems by getting them to go to London and train as doctors. So Joe Wheelwright tells very funny stories about his training – I guess at Mosley Hospital in London – where he walked into a room on rounds, and the Chief Physician said, "What is that patient suffering from, Wheelwright?" And Wheelwright looked right back, and said, "Oh, he has tuberculosis." The doctor was just furious. He said, "Well, as a matter of fact he does have tuberculosis, but did you put on your stethoscope, did you listen to his lungs, did you look at his hands, did you take his pulse, did you look at his skin? No. You just stood across the room and said he has tuberculosis." Joe said that that was how intuition was treated when he was a medical student.
    So we just sort of learned this in the most down-home natural way, and so, intuitive type, thinking type, feeling type, sensation type were absolute realities to all of us, and extravert, and introvert, and so forth. And then we had Wayne Detloff who was the man who first did the heretical thing of telling us that there was such a thing as a Myers-Brigg Type Indicator, and he was the one who told me something that I gather still is heretical in some circles, but not in the circles I travel in and create for myself, that if the superior function is extraverted, then the auxiliary function is introverted. If the superior function is introverted, the auxiliary is extraverted. And I know that there are many people who still resist the idea, but I am absolutely enamored of it, and I can usually prove how it is true of them, even against their resistance. But in any case, for what it is worth, it was Wayne Detloff who was the source of that idea and my experience.
    Of course there was Jane Wheelwright who was very much an introverted sensation type, very grounded in her own sense of reality, very clear about who she was and what was true, and stayed always with facts in a wonderful kind of way, and then we had Elizabeth Austerman who just turned 80 in the last year or so, and Elizabeth was very strong on types. She was the one who made me realize when I was doing some analytic work with her that if you are a man, and your superior function is, as mine is, extraverted intuitive, the anima has a type, too, and the anima in my case is introverted sensation. I remember when I said to her, "You know, I think my anima in introverted sensation," and I can still remember her saying, "I couldn’t agree more." When an analyst says that to you, then you really remember it, so I didn’t have to get it out of a book. I had it right from my analyst. We had looked at the anima figure in my dreams, and she was an introverted sensation type, and she had her own reality, and it was the inverse of mine. She was just as polar opposite to me as it was possible to be, or so I thought at that time. Step by step as I learned the ropes about what it was to be a person and a doctor and a Jungian therapist, I had this strong support in talking about this psychologically. I realize how lucky I am because if I had trained almost anywhere else in the world as a Jungian analyst, there wouldn’t have been anywhere near this discussion of types, and there certainly wouldn’t have been as much authority behind it. You always learn what your teachers think is important to learn, so I had a lot of early grounding in it.
    Jim: How many Jungian analysts actually use psychological types?
    John Beebe: There have been very few research studies on the use of types by Jungian analysts. The impression I got long ago from both the Plout and the Detloff-Bradway studies was that type was poorly understood and very much underutilized even by trained practicing Jungian analysts.
    The question comes up as to whether type ought to be used as the majority of people use it, as you put in the title of one of your books, Jim, A Tool for Understanding Human Differences, as a way to understand interactions between people who are dissimilar, or whether typology can also be used as an intrapsychic tool to explain what are sometimes called internal object relations in depth where different parts of the psyche of a given individual are relating to each other. You know Jung’s complex theory has it, that all of us are made up of different individuals, that we are all some kind of multiply personality. What separates us from a diagnosis of a multiple personality from someone who really has a multiple personality is perhaps greater ability to keep the parts together with some kind of glue that gives the personality its integrity. But only that. We are nevertheless, despite the glue, a very obvious mosaic, and if you look closely at someone you can see the various blocks that make up the mosaic work of the psyche, and of course, the typological theory has it that there are 8 basic blocks. We also, by definition, have to have 8 complexes carrying those types, or blocks, or associated with those types or blocks. We have – all of us – 8 basic intelligences that make up the totality of our potential for conscious functioning. The system of psychological types is simply an archetypal model that organizes those 8 basic units into some kind of structure. Now, there are a lot of arguments about what that basic structure is, but there is no argument that there are these 8 basic intelligences.
    Jung said that we need a function to tell us what is, and that is sensation. We need a function to give it a name, and that’s thinking. We need a function to tell us what it is worth, and that’s feeling, and we need a function to tell us what its possibilities are, where it is headed, and that’s intuition. He made it sound very simple. Actually, what is behind that is one of the most amazing intuitions in the history of science, that someone would have intuited that there is this apparently 4-fold cognitive structure. Now those of us who look very closely at type recognize that it is not really 4-fold, it is 8-fold because each of these basic functions, and these functions are, again, sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition, can be used, or as I like to say, deployed in either an extraverted or an introverted way, so that for all practical purposes we have not just sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition, but introverted sensation and extraverted sensation, and introverted thinking and extraverted thinking, and introverted feeling and extraverted feeling, and introverted intuition and extraverted intuition. Now a lot of people say, "Who says? Why couldn’t there be 52 functions, and why couldn’t you make up another set of pretty names, and so forth?" Well, aside from the fact that Jung says, a lot of us who look very closely at how people sort out their adapting, find that this sorting system that Jung gave us is a remarkably complete description of how people actually go about their functioning. Human consciousness does distribute itself in an individual in typical ways, and that Jung has given us an extremely powerful archetypal model for understanding the distribution of intelligence in the individual. Another way of saying it is the distribution of consciousness, or at least the potential for consciousness in an individual.
    Late in life someone asked Jung, "Well, does consciousness help in the process of individuation?" This person was thinking individuation meant some kind of self-actualization, and maybe you could get there without psychotherapy, but it might be so much better to have psychotherapy, so does consciousness help in the process of individuation? And Jung’s answer was just sublime. He said, "Consciousness is the human being’s individuation." And then in the typical language of Jung he said, "Well, you know if a plant has it in its rhizome to produce a certain flower, and the plant goes on to flower, then you can speak of the flowering of the plant as the individuation of the plant." Then Jung said, "Consciousness is the human being’s flower." What I like to say is that if the human being flowers, if the human being gets consciousness, sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition are the petals of that flower. What operated in that 4-fold way was a chance to tap into his unconscious wisdom of the psyche, and I think in that manner via a perception of the unconscious using his introverted intuition through an archetypal 4-fold model, Jung found out more than a human being really has a right to know. He actually cracked a little bit of the code that time, I think, and got hold of the theory of psychological types. Now we know that it is really an 8-fold flower, not a 4-fold flower, and that we really have to think of these 8 functions as 8 quite separate things because sure, there is sensation, but there in introverted sensation and extraverted sensation, and if you hang around the type game long enough, you know that introverted sensation and extraverted sensation are so different that they might as well be called by entirely different names. They both employ sensory faculties, yes, and they both concern themselves with the nature of reality in a strong way, but there the resemblance ends. The introverted sensation type is extremely austere, and the extraverted sensation type is extreme lavish.
    Jim: How are types actually used in practice? For example, if someone comes to you in analysis, how does that person become aware of their own type?
    John Beebe: Well, there are two schools of thought. There is the way I was raised, and there is the way I raise others. Now I had the kind of analyst at the beginning who didn’t throw out terminology and theory, but let me find my own way, and I’ll always admire that analyst, though I don’t think I am capable of being that open-ended and withholding. I well remember coming in with a depression, and talking about my low energy and my blocked feeling in life, and my analyst saying after only 3 or 4 sessions of just hearing me out in the most gentle way, "Do you ever dream when you are depressed?" I suppose that’s no big deal of a question for a Jungian analyst to ask a patient, but it was so remarkable. I mean, it was just the day the light went on for me because his saying, "Do you ever dream when you are depressed?" just lit me up. I just suddenly felt seen. It was as though a light went on in my room, for I had always dreamed, but no one had ever accorded me that kind of value, and particularly practical value. I mean the implication was that the dreams would shed light on the depression, and might have a role in getting me out of it, that my energy was somewhere, that I wasn’t just depressed, but that something else was going on. And somehow that was everything I needed. I suddenly realized everything else. I realized that of course my mind was on my dreams. No wonder I couldn’t pay attention to things, and no wonder I lost things, and couldn’t keep track of everyday things. It just became obvious to me that what I had always been so ashamed of, my inability to keep my eye on the ball, be a good athlete, or keep a neat room, or remember to have change for bus fare when I got on the bus, or whatever it might have been, or learn to drive a car, for goodness sake, I mean all of it, all the things I found so hard to do were the flip side of – of course I’m dreaming. I couldn’t possibly be asked to do that. I am a dreamer. He just sort of made that available to me by asking that question, and so without the names, I knew I was an intuitive type, and I knew I had inferior sensation, and that I was right-side up instead of feeling inferior about my intuition, and even more inferior about my sensation, I mean I felt good about myself for the first time. I think that anyone who has used the type theory to rescue themselves understands this kind of experience. But he didn’t do it through names. I suppose that is really the best way to do it. But I am an extraverted therapist, and I am an extraverted intuitive thinking type, and I really get interested in the therapeutic process, and I have to admit I can’t stay out of it. So as I’m sitting there, relating to the patient, I almost have to say what I see and think. I am a terrible poker player. I can’t time interpretations. Sometimes I look at my watch to time interpretations, but it doesn’t seem to work for me, and people don’t like you to look at your watch. I try so hard to be tactful, but my patients see my face moving around. They want to know what I think, so before I know it I have blurted it all out, and I say, "Well, you know, Carl Jung has a theory about this sort of thing, and based on what you have just told me, all the interest you have been showing ever since you have walked in the room with the feelings of just about everybody else but yourself, I mean, just about every hour is spent telling me about what is happening to one of your friends, or to your college roommate, or how Susie’s marriage is going, or how that party is going to be handled, I just have to tell you that you concern yourself an awful lot with other people’s feelings, and that’s what Jung called an extraverted feeling type, and I just have that feeling that that’s you, and I want you to know that that’s something you really love to do. That’s how you use your time here, and I haven’t noticed you bringing up anything about Emanuel Kant in a long time, so I don’t think thinking is a strong thing for you, and I don’t think you should expect it to be." So I’ve just given the ranch away I suppose, but I feel that if I really know something it helps people to know what I think and what I see, and I try to create a spirit of inquiry where each of us can contribute what he thinks he knows, or he or she knows, and it is all open to argument and debate, and we can go back around it. But I have to say that it becomes a kind of language – maybe it is because I like to teach – I end up teaching a little bit of it – and then most of my patients get better at it than I am.
    We can talk about all these things indefinitely. There is that moment when a person just knows who they are, or it isn’t, and until that moment it all just is tentative talk. But at that moment it is the realist thing in the world, and sometimes it is very humiliating to me because women I have just laid a trip on and told them they were a certain kind of type, the moment when it happens and they know who they are, they just come back and it is as clear as a bell. They’ll tell me who they are. A lot of times introverted intuitives turn out to be introverted feeling types. I remember one man who was so sure he was a thinking type, and this time I unmasked him. I recognized that he had a strong feeling function, and he dreamed he was in his grandmother’s house and he was washing a blue wall, and the paint started coming off, and underneath it the wall was red. Well, anyone who knows types knows that blue is the traditional color associated with thinking, and the red with feeling, and so the blue wall was apparently a façade. The dream helped us. As it turned out, feeling I don’t think was his superior function, I think it was his auxiliary function, but it was certainly clear that one of his leading functions was not thinking at all, but feeling. Why his grandmother’s house? Well, his grandmother put a high premium on education. She had practically raised him, and he had saved himself by getting a very good education, and everyone had been very proud of his grades in school, so he had been pleasing his grandmother by putting up a kind of thinking façade, but underneath it was a more basic feeling nature. I have met a number of men who felt overshadowed by their fathers or brothers and felt bad about themselves. I remember one extraverted intuitive man who came from a sensation family, and I thought he was an introverted sensation type because he was engaged in activities, he worked around machines, and he was doing things that involved sensation, except the trouble was he was doing it terribly, and he was often losing his job. I didn’t quite catch on for the longest time. He was a bright fellow. I just thought he was unadapted, or primitive, or whatever. Finally it all came out. He was an extraverted intuitive, just like me, and extravert sensation father, and sensation type brother, and I think the whole family had been sensation types in some kind of sensation type business that he was trying to follow, and it was all wrong for him. He was treated sort of like the identified patient, we say, in a family, or the new therapist version of the black sheep in the family, he was sort of the black sheep in his family, and he walked around failing for all the rest of them because for them to get into intuition at all was to be a failure. So we had a lot of work to do, and I still remember our discovery of his type followed a dream in which he had gone somewhere where he had felt at home and could be himself. And right after that dream he told me what his type was, and that I had been wrong to think he was sensation oriented.
    Jim: What’s the connection between colors and types?
    John Beebe: C.A. Meyers says that the type code is absolute. You can find it in two of Jung’s essays. One is a study in the process of individuation, and the other is concerning mandala symbolism, and there somewhere in the text, or in one case even in the footnotes you find this color code, and the color code is red for feeling, blue for thinking, green or brown for sensation, and yellow for intuition. Is this absolute? I rather like it. It does seem to work more of the time than not. I particularly like it when bad colors come up in dreams, for instance, a bad yellow. That always suggests to me that we are dealing with an inferior intuition rather than a superior. I suppose both number and color refer to extremely primal experiences. We all have the experience of numbers of things, we all have the experience of colors, and we are dealing here with extremely archetypal realities. The association of color with psychological type is a very, very puzzling thing. It seems to say that the types are not only particular, but they are extremely peculiar. We have extremely peculiar natures. Obviously a red shirt is not a yellow shirt. The character of the shirt is different, and a red wall is not a blue wall. It seems to me that when we use color symbolism to indicate type, there is an attempt to empathize the style of the consciousness, that the consciousness has a certain style, and has a certain overall impact and effect.
    Well, the question comes up about the inferior function, and I always feel that anyone wants to learn Jungian psychology ought to get hold of that book published by Spring Publications called Lectures on Jung’s Typology. It is really two lectures on Jung’s typology, one by Marie-Louise von Franz called The Inferior Function, and the other by James Hillman called The Feeling Function – not really two lectures, two series of lectures. These were originally given as a series of lectures at the Jung Institute in Zurich. The book is in two parts, and von Franz gives us a dazzling discussion of this part of the psyche that Jung called the inferior function. The superior function and the inferior function are two points along a human line, and that human line is the plumb line of the personality which I call the spine. And I like to think of the superior function as the head of the spine, and the inferior function as the tail of the spine. This definition of the spine is a very real thing. When I discovered that I was an intuitive type, I just knew suddenly – the man who dreamed when he was depressed – had to be some kind of intuitive, and I later realized was an extraverted intuitive, and he also had to be an absent-minded bloke who lost things, and that was my inferior introverted sensation, and I felt my spine in that. Not long after that I dreamt that I was present at the birth of a baby, and I was both the person giving the birth, and I was also the person delivering the baby. If I really knew it, I was also the baby. The baby which was coming out of that healthy sense of spine, was my nature, my psychological type. That sense of self we all have is along that mysterious axis between what we are best at and what we are worst at, which is the spine of our personality, and there is our uprightness, there is our integrity. Another way of saying this metaphorically and analogically is that a personality needs to drop anchor. Some people are pretty clear about what they are best at, but it doesn’t ground them enough. What grounds them is that thing they are not so good at, the thing they can’t control with the conscious mind, the thing they can’t make money at, the thing they can’t will, the thing they can’t push around, the thing that just is and constantly brings them down to earth.
    I was in my glory just a few days ago at the time of the election because I consulted the I Ching last January, January of 1992, and I asked about some presidential possibilities, and based on the answers I got I concluded Clinton could win the election, and that Bush would lose the election. Because I can’t contain anything, I let that out at a public lecture in April or so, and then I just lived in dread because if that didn’t come through, my name would be mud. It was a very strange political year, there were many vicissitudes, and Clinton finally won. Bush lost. I was the prophet of all time. I was just exactly what I wanted to be – the great extraverted intuitive prophet. And I was so filled with my happiness, my glory and all the rest that I forgot to write down the time of two of my patients and managed to ignore the writing on my calendar on the third, so I messed up three appointments in a single week. What a nerd this would-be genius turned out to be. That’s the way of the balancing act that the psyche gives us every single time between my marvelous extraverted intuition in my case, and my absolutely rotted, no good introverted sensation that can’t be trusted.
    Or one could look at it the other way. One could say that what is rotten is my inflated extraverted intuition, and what is good about me is this humble introverted sensation that makes these mistakes to remind me that I need to pay attention to the here and now, the straight and narrow, and to be humble. Now the humility of that thing that I have had a lifelong inferiority complex about didn’t come through to me until I finally had a dream in which the introverted sensation was directly symbolized, and interestingly enough, by a figure of the opposite sex of a lower social class, and another race, but a person of great human value – my Chinese laundress at a time when I was taking my clothes to be washed at one of the many Chinese laundries that are available in the city for not much more than it would cost to do it oneself. One can actually leave the laundry and have it all neatly folded and so forth. In the early days as a young doctor in this city I thought it was the height of glory to have this done for me, so I always dropped off my laundry at the launderette. In my dream the Chinese laundress appeared, and she was cleaning up around the bathroom, and then she was by herself in her room, and she was extremely poor. She didn’t have anything, and she looked unhappy. The room was kind of stark and empty. And why didn’t she have anything? Well, she had a husband who was out spending his money gambling, drinking, maybe doping, out all hours and didn’t bring anything home to her.
    Well, this was some anima figure. I had expected, reading Jungian psychology, that I was going to get a marvelous movie actress, and someone whose face shone like the sun, or some really extraordinary woman who would tell me poetry or appear in a toga or something, but it was my Chinese laundress. Now, granted I had had some of those women, but they had never had time for me. They were all filled with themselves and narcissistic. They weren’t doing anything for me. This woman was taking care of me, but no one was taking care of her. Well, what did that mean? It wasn’t hard to get her type. This was a woman I identified pretty clearly as an introverted sensation type. She was efficient, good with her hands, good with menial things, didn’t concern herself with a lot of intuitive possibilities, didn’t have particularly good thinking, or good feeling, but very, very good sensation, worked behind the scenes.
    What was my introverted sensation like in those days? Well, I didn’t give my body too much. I used to have headaches, I didn’t notice what I ate, and I don’t think I ate particularly well in those days, didn’t get enough sleep. The husband that was off gambling, drinking, doping, spending the money – well, I did spend too much money. I have already told you that by saying I would rather than be efficient and buy a washing machine, or do it myself, I was having it done. I wasn’t counting the pennies that that added up to – quite a few pennies if you really think about it. It seemed logical to me at the time, but it was a very expensive way to take care of laundry. I am happy to say I wasn’t a drinker or a doper, but I was all over town chasing possibilities. I was the original person that if I were to read late at night after a day at work that a book had just been released, I had to be at the bookstore to chase down that possibility, or if a new movie was there, I had to go out and see it even if I was tired, and that I would be tired the next day, I just couldn’t let a possibility go. That’s a typical extraverted intuitive thing. So according to the unconscious, they were married. The introverted sensation woman and the man running all over town were married, so that is as if to say that the introverted sensation and the extraverted intuition are related to each other, and that’s where you get the idea of the spine again. In other words, they are two ends of an axis, they are two parts of a marriage. The point is he wasn’t taking care of her. They were going their separate ways, and I began to understand what this dream was saying. So I began to look at this. How was I not taking care of introverted sensation? Well, I started by watching what was happening – I was already in practice by now – I started looking at what was going on in my practice. Would you know that I didn’t even breathe in those days in those analytic hours, or not nearly enough? I would sit while a person told me a dream with bated breath, waiting to hear what the next symbolic image would be, and the one after that, and the one after that. My mind would run off, and I was a good student, and I would listen to these images and take off possibilities for archetypal amplification, or possible meanings in the person’s life, and make connections with this and that, and I completely forgot about myself I was so busy chasing down the possibilities in this other person’s unconscious life. I would forget that I was there. I would forget to breathe, I would forget that I was uncomfortable. I would sit so hard that I would make one of my feet go to sleep by pressing it so hard against the other just with this intensity of interest in someone else, chasing the possibilities in other people’s psyches. Granted, I learned a lot of psychology that way, but at what cost to myself? So I learned that someone could tell you something, and whether they liked it or not, you could breathe. I could breathe. (breathes deeply) How do I feel right now, let alone how they feel, what they are talking about? Where am I? Am I comfortable? Is there enough ambient air? Is it too hot? Did I breathe? I readjust myself, get into my body. And then I would notice that my body had been miserable the whole time they had been talking. And that was a better clue to what was going on than all the intuitive possibilities and their dream imagery. And then I could dare to say, "You know, I haven’t been all that comfortable since you started talking. I have been feeling kind of constricted and unhappy. I notice I have a little bit of a headache starting. I wonder if that’s important, too?" And the person would burst into tears, and all the affect that had been suppressed behind the dream which was being used as a defensive structure as a way of talking about their problem but not really owning it, talking about it through the dream. The defense would dissolve and the person would come into view. My body had felt, not my good intuitive mind, so I began to learn that therapy is better done often through the inferior function rather than through the superior function. Anyway, what do you think happened in my dream life? She looked better now. She looked happier. Her husband was taking her out for ice cream.
    Jim: Can we identify a particular archetype with a particular psychological type function, and if we do, will that change over time?
    John Beebe: Well, of course one of the things I pioneered is the idea that all of the psychological types in a given individual are carried by archetypes. Specifically, they are carried by part personalities of the total psyche, and one could actually identify a human personality with each of the eight types that makes up the completeness of one’s type profile. I have already said that the superior function has the character of a hero, and I have said that in a man the inferior function has the character of the anima – the anima being a figure of the opposite sex. The figure of the opposite sex with a certain strangeness associated to it. When we are talking about archetypes carrying the functions, I pretty much confine myself not to impersonal geometric patterns like mandalas, but to human archetypes. I believe that the archetype carrying the superior function is the hero archetype. Often in a woman, the heroine, often in a man the hero. This was a relatively easy identification to make. When I started with this work, the only identification that had been made with an archetype figure in a type was the inferior function. Jung had said somewhere that the anima carries the inferior function in a man, and that the animus carries the inferior function in a woman. There he pretty much let it rest. I said, "Well, why can’t the superior function have an archetype, too?" The more I thought about it, the more I thought that my extraverted intuition was my hero. I has a certain larger than quality and the ability to do unusual things well, and is the part of me that is capable of significant innovation. It is also the part of me that capable of inflation in the sense that being so good, it thinks it is too good. It has a tendency to work alone and to think of itself as the law unto itself, and it loves to not only cope with situations, and solve problems, and pass the kind of hero tests that the hero passes in a fairy tale, but to rise to occasions and to master situations.
    Jim: John, tell us about your book.
    John Beebe: I should really start with my first book which is a book I finished right after my residency called Psychiatric Treatment: Crisis, Clinic and Consultation. There is a chapter on psychotic states that I wrote, which implicitly shows shadow sides of various psychological types. This was published in 1975 by McGraw Hill.
    The next book I did came out just after I became a Jungian analyst. It seemed to be a fate that I would become a psychiatrist and then immediately afterward I would write a book on psychiatric treatment. Here I had to edit a whole book of congress papers for the first congress that I attended after I became a Jungian analyst in 1980. It has this wonderful title, Money, Food, Drink and Fashion and Analytic Training.
    Then after 3 years ago in 1989 I got a chance to edit a book of Jung’s papers on masculine psychology, and to write a Forward to it. This was a wonderful opportunity. I enjoyed putting it together. I made my own selection. He doesn’t have any one paper about masculine psychology the way some of his papers are about feminine psychology. There is no single place where he talks about the animus over the course of a single paper, for example, let alone parts of a man’s psyche. So I had to pick and choose, and I made a selection that in one relatively short volume that wouldn’t be longer than aspects of the feminine which had already been published. It is very important to keep this equal. Princeton University Press brought this out, and it’s still doing very well. The cover shows the strange spirit, Mercurius, which is Jung’s ultimate image of the masculine, I think.
    Then finally, if you have edited enough books and contributed chapters to enough, sooner or later people will say, "John, when will you write a book of your own?" And I always thought my first book would be about types, but I got a chance to give some lectures in Texas in 1991, and I took it, and I gave lectures on the subject that had become rather important to me, the subject of integrity. This book is called Integrity in Depth, and typology figures in it as an aspect of our integrity. I actually record the experience of a woman patient coming to terms with her own spine, but my real goal in this book was to discuss integrity, as nearly as I can tell, for the first time in such an extended presentation as a psychological concept rather than just a moral concept. We have always been taught that integrity is standing up for what you believe, and keeping your agreements, and being principled in your behavior. What I say in this book is that integrity is essentially a willing sensitivity to the needs of the whole, and it’s not enough just to defend one’s particular part, but that one has to take into account the whole. This is a book that gives a sort of an over-arching philosophical statement to what I hope to follow up with a much more practical book on the psychological types, which is sort of integrity in practice. When you take responsibility for the functioning of all of these 8 intelligences within yourself, and admit that they are all part of you rather than splitting them into those that you like, and those that you don’t like, and disowning the fact that you are always acting and behaving, and that there is a whole world for which you have to take your rightful share of responsibility. That seems to me really what integrity is.
    I am also an editor, as I mentioned in the beginning. I founded this journal, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, in 1979, and these days we are a very upstanding publication with about 2,000 subscribers internationally, and we come out on time four times a year, and we are just about self-sufficient. This is a journal devoted exclusively to reviews of Jungian books and articles that can be construed as reviews. Some of them are rather long, extensive essays that take off from the review. Sometimes it takes us a long time to get around to reviewing a particular author’s works or set of works, but eventually everyone gets covered, and covered in depth. That’s our goal.
    I have been asked recently within the last couple of years to be part of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. I am now the American co-editor. There is an English co-editor, also. This comes out 4 times a year. This is the gold standard of Jungian journals, and it is a great honor to be part of it. It gives me a lot to do to edit these journals, but it gives me so much back because it enables me to keep track of what’s going on in this ever-changing and busy field. No one can possibly cover the whole of it, but I get an awfully good cross-section between these two journals. I spend an awful lot of time reading manuscripts, going over them, and I sometimes worry that it takes away from my own chance to write and work, but on the other hand, it is a very good discipline, and I don’t think I would trade it.
    Jim: Thank you, John for being with us.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roww roww roww ur boaat View Post
    Ik might seem like a stupid question lol but why 16? Why not more or maybe it's something else. Socionics is just a system trying to explain things or am i getting it wrong?
    Carl Jung originally devised 8 types according to 8 functions, and broke them down even further into 16 types. He was kind of vague about what constituted the 16 types, so Socionists explained further and eventually Model A was conceived.

    Technically, the permutations have been even further divided with the subtype system and the DCNH system.

    Why 16 according to Model A? Because the symmetry of the system and the mathematics of the system yields 16 types. There are 8 functions, each having an opposite. For example, Fe is the opposite of Ti. One is conscious, the other is unconscious. One is strong, one is weak. So Model A conceptualizes the differences and the symmetry of the dichotomies to make a total of 16 types.
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    Here is an article about "Why Sixteen Types?"

    Under the spoiler, there is a reference to the original article that I got this from.



    http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...tion-Evolution

    [IMG]file:///C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png[/IMG] Cognitive Functions Explained In Simple Terms



    Edit: I put this is the wrong thread but I am not going to move it.


    Cognitive Functions Explained
    In Simple Terms


    By Michael T. Robinson
    President
    CareerPlanner.com Inc.
    This article describes your 8 cognitive functions, as well as what introversion and extraversion are. These concepts form the basis for understanding and using Personality Type.

    The Brain and Your Personality Type

    The brain takes in information for us (perceiving) and then it helps us make decisions (judging).

    These are the 2 most basic, fundamental functions of the the brain, besides keeping us alive by telling us to eat and breathe.

    There are 4 totally different ways of perceiving and 4 totally different ways of judging.

    Together these are called the 8 cognitive functions.

    The differences in how we all perceive and judge accounts for the basic differences in personality. To a large extent, differences in perceiving and judging is why we are all so different.

    Personality type theory actually comes from an understanding of these 8 functions. Your 4 letter personality type is actually a code which will tell you which functions you are strongest in and which functions are probably weak and which will cause you all sorts of problems.

    Unfortunately, you can not be good at using all 8 of these functions.

    You will probably be very good with 2 of these cognitive functions and they will account for your strengths. 2 functions will be weak and will indicate what your blind spots might be.

    And, just to make things interesting, 4 of the 8 functions will be in the unconscious and out of your control. These "shadow functions" will usually pop up to cause you trouble when you are stressed.

    Why Bother Learning This and Who Cares?

    Understanding a bit about cognitive functions and personality type will give you a framework for understanding yourself and other people.
    So if you want better relationships at home or at work, personality type will give you a method for understanding people and for adjusting your approach with people, especially the difficult people in your life.

    It takes some practice. But once you understand the basics of personality type, and you see a person behaving in a certain way, the system will tell you why they behave that way and what you might do about it.

    The best way to learn about personality type is to start with the cognitive functions, described below.

    But First Lets Look at Introversion and Extraversion

    Introversion and extraversion are known as "attitudes" and they affect the functions.

    Almost everyone has heard the term "extravert" and "introvert."

    Extraverts are those people who talk a bit more, talk a bit louder, talk a bit faster and seem to enjoy having more people around and having more action in their lives.

    The definition of an extravert is someone who gets energized by having more activity in the real world. More people, more events, more sounds, more sights etc.

    Introverts are those people who are more energized by being in their heads, with their own thoughts, ideas, dreams, visions etc.

    Introverts prefer quiet. They talk less. They talk more slowly, unless they are talking about their favorite subjects in which case they can look like extraverts.

    There are two worlds we all live in. The world inside of our mind which is where introverts prefer to spend most of their time, and the world external to our minds. That would be the real, physical world full of action, people, and events. It's the external world where extraverts prefer to spend most of their time.

    There is a scientific reason for extraversion and introversion, and it's a bit surprising. Researchers have found that due to brain chemistry, introverts normally have a higher level of neuro chemical stimulation going on in their brains. Thus, they are normally over stimulated and they try to tone things down.

    Extraverts have less neuro chemical stimulation going on in parts of their brains, thus they seek out more stimulation from the external world.
    The key to remember is that when you think of the term "extraverted" think of what is going on in the real world, around you, and in the present. It's always in the present moment.

    When you think of "introverted" think of what is going on inside one's mind, and this activity can involve the past, present and future.
    An extreme example of a person who prefers extraversion is someone who loves to go to live sporting events like baseball games or football games, or rock concerts. I'm not talking about the person who goes once a year. I'm talking about the person who has season tickets and tries to get to as many games as possible. They are energized by the crowds, the game, the event as a whole. Then after the event, they probably want even more excitement. They will want to continue to hang out with their friends.

    There are still introverts in the crowd, but, after all of that external stimulation, they will want to go home and recharge in a quiet environment.
    Introverts still want and need people, it's just that they like for their people interactions to be a little less noisy, less crowded and less chaotic. They prefer being with one or two close friends rather than larger groups. The reason is that they are neurochemically more sensitive.

    The Perceiving Functions

    The 4 ways to take in information are:





    Remember, when you hear the word "extraverted" that means what happens external to your mind. This means what happens in the real physical world. Also remember it takes place in the present moment, real time.
    When you hear the word "introverted" that means what goes on inside your mind. That would be your thoughts, feelings, ideas, concepts, theories, and memories. These transcend time. They can be about the past, present, or future.

    Extraverted Sensing is what happens when you pay attention to what your 5 senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, seeing) are telling you about the real world. It's a real time process that is happening now.

    So if you pay attention to a sound coming from a bird just outside your door, that's your brain using it's extraverted sensing function to pay attention to the sound.

    Introverted Sensing is when you remember the sound of a bird that you heard last week. Because you are paying attention to the memory of it in your mind, rather than the real live event.

    Extraverted Intuiting is when you see several possible futures. It's when you do rapid fire brainstorm. It's when you see connections and patterns between people and events.

    Introverted Intuiting is when you get insights that seem to come from nowhere. It's when you have those "aha" moments.

    The Judging Functions

    There are the 4 basic ways we make decisions. These are your judging functions:



    Extraverted Thinking is making decisions about the external world using objective facts.

    Extraverted Feeling is making decisions based on a value system that is concerned with the well being of people. These values are more global and cultural than personal.

    Introverted Thinking is making decisions based on data, categories, and theories inside your mind.

    Introverted Feeling is about making decisions based on your personal values and being concerned more with how things impact you personally than how the group is impacted.

    Understanding the Order of Your 8 Functions

    Although we all have 8 functions, our ability to use them is different for each of the 16 personality types

    There are two ways to list your 8 functions, by order of strength as measured by a cognitive function assessment, or by using what is known as the John Beebe1 Model or Hierarchy.

    John Beebe is one of the foremost Jungian Analysts in the world today and he has taken Jung's personality type to the next level.
    Each cognitive function behaves different depending on which position / role it falls into in the Beebe Hierarchy.
    The Introverts

    Role ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ ISTP INTP ISFP INFP
    1 Dominant / Hero Si Si Ni Ni Ti Ti Fi Fi
    2 Auxiliary / Supportive / Parent Te Fe Fe Te Se Ne Se Ne
    3 Relief Fi Ti Ti Fi Ni Si Ni Si
    4 Aspirational Ne Ne Se Se Fe Fe Te Te
    5 Opposing Se Se Ne Ne Te Te Fe Fe
    6 Critical Parent Ti Fi Fi Ti Si Ni Si Ni
    7 Trickster Fe Te Te Fe Ne Se Ne Se
    8 Devilish / Transformative Ni Ni Si Si Fi Fi Ti Ti

    The Extraverts

    Role ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP ESTJ ENTJ ESFJ ENFJ
    1 Dominant / Hero Se Se Ne Ne Te Te Fe Fe
    2 Auxiliary / Supportive / Parent Ti Fi Fi Ti Si Ni Si Ni
    3 Relief Fe Te Te Fe Ne Se Ne Se
    4 Aspirational Ni Ni Si Si Fi Fi Ti Ti
    5 Opposing Si Si Ni Ni Ti Ti Fi Fi
    6 Critical Parent Te Fe Fe Te Se Ne Se Ne
    7 Trickster Fi Ti Ti Fi Ni Si Ni Si
    8 Devilish / Transformative Ne Ne Se Se Fe Fe Te Te


    Understanding the Roles (Archetypes)

    We all play different roles in life. Sometimes father, mother, child, brother, sister, teacher, student.Your functions have 8 different roles to play.

    Function 1) Hero / Heroine Role

    Your strongest function will be in the hero / heroine role. This is how you "save the day." This is your dominant cognitive function.
    When life calls on you to save the day, you will call on, and depend on your dominant function.

    If you look at your life, at a time that you made the most progress, or you did something really significant, where you had to work hard at it, but you succeeded, it was your hero function doing the heavy lifting and saving the day for you.

    Function 2) Auxiliary / Supportive / Parent Role

    This is your second strongest function. It supports your Hero function. It's helpful to think that together the first two functions account for ~ 90% of your personality.

    It's called the "Parent" function because it's used in a helping, positive, supportive way.

    According to John Beebe, the Jungian Analyst who expanded Carl Jung's work of the 8 function model, when you reach out to help someone, it's your second function that you start with.

    Function 3) Tertiary / Relief Role

    Whichever function falls into the 3rd position, the "Relief Role," will be the one that is almost always weak and troublesome.

    It does not develop until mid life. Because of this it gets very little exercise and very little practice. Thus if you are called to use this function in your teens or mid twenties, you will fall flat on your face.

    You won't be able to count on this function as you do your top two functions.

    Psychologists suggest that you should get to know your tertiary function in a relaxed, playful, recreational, stress free manner. Thus it's called the "Relief" function.

    Function 4) Inferior / Aspirational Role

    Whichever function falls into the 4th position, will also be weak for you but it holds something special as the name "Aspirational" indicates.

    Whichever function falls here, describes what you aspire to.

    Yes, early on in life, using your 4th function is a source of weakness, maybe failure, maybe even shame. You probably can not perform the skills and tasks that are normally associated with this function.

    But you will find great satisfaction and maybe even breakthroughs, from periodically trying to exercise this function.

    In particular, the 4th function is considered the doorway to the unconscious. It's through using this function in a low pressure, low stress, friendly way that you can tap into the unconscious and all the energy and creativity that is stored there.

    So make sure you keeping trying to use your 4th function. It will help you become all you can be.

    Function 5) Opposing Role

    Your 5th function is used mainly as a defense. It's how you might become stubborn, uncooperative, unfriendly, rude, or obstructive.
    So look at the fifth function for your 4 letter type. See what it is all about, and ask yourself if that is not how you become defensive, stubborn etc.

    Function 6) Critical Parent Role

    We all have experienced a critical parent in our lives. It's when a parent tells you that you are doing something wrong or you are doing something poorly.

    The critical parent is a voice in your head that will cause you to criticize yourself and others.

    Whichever function falls into this position will determine the flavor of your self criticism.

    Function 7) The Trickster Role

    Which ever function falls into the 7th position will cause you grief throughout your life.

    The role of the trickster is to deceive and distort what you experience, or think you experience.

    Mike Shur the Assessment Specialist and personality type expert describes the 7th function as walking through the fun house at a carnival. This is the room full of mirrors that stretch you and distort you, making you taller and thinner than you really are.

    You will most often experience the 7th function when you are stressed or under pressure, or overly tired. You can not trust your perceptions or judgments when your 7th function is in charge.

    You will see things and believe things that are not real. You will put yourself or others in a double bind situation, which forces people to lose.
    People describe it as being in the grip of their 7th function.

    Function 8) Demonic / Transformative Role

    Which ever function falls into the 8th position describes how you are when you are the most destructive. Thus the term "Demonic Role."

    The 8th function can rarely also be transformative, propelling you to greater personal growth and maturity.

    But most often, when a situation calls for you to use your 8th function, it's not going to be pretty.

    Your Strengths, Weaknesses and Blind Spots

    The strongest function is called your dominant function and it usually is well developed by age 13.

    The second strongest function is called your auxiliary / supportive function. It supports your dominant function. It usually develops by age 21.

    Together your dominant and auxiliary function probably describe 90% of your personality type, on a good day. So you almost don't need to know about the other 6 functions.

    Except that knowing those other 6 functions will show you where you are the weakest, where you have blind spots, and where you will experience the most personal growth as an adult.

    Your 3rd function is known as your tertiary function. It's never going to be all that strong that you can depend on it, but you will probably find that activities that use your 3rd function will be very relaxing and recreational for you.

    Your 4th function is called your inferior function for a reason. It's a weak area for you. However, it also represents the area for maximum personal growth.

    The 4th function is said to be the doorway to your unconscious. The unconscious is actually where all of our energy comes from. It is full of new potential. So for growth you want to open the door and let some of it come out. Activities that involve your 4th function will open the door.

    Lets look at an INTJ for example. Their 8 functions are listed below in what is known as the Beebe Model, after John Beebe, noted Jungian Analyst.
    Role INTJ
    1 Dominant (Hero / Heroine) Ni
    2 Auxiliary (Supporting) Te
    3 Tertiary (Relief) Fi
    4 Inferior (Aspirational) Se
    5 Opposing Ne
    6 Critical Parent Ti
    7 Deceiving / Trickster Fe
    8 Demonic / Angelic Si

    Dominant Function (Role = Hero)

    For the INTJ, the dominant function is Ni.

    A person's dominant function is their strongest and most well developed.

    When the dominant function for a person is introverted, that person behaves as an introvert. Conversely, when a person's dominant function is Extraverted, they behave as an extravert.

    Please note that for introverts, their auxiliary function is much more visible and easily recognized by themselves and by others. This is because their dominant function is introverted and hidden from the outside world.

    When you first meet an introvert, what you are seeing is their 2nd function, because they will hold back showing your their dominant function until they trust you. Thus its harder to get to know introverts.

    For this reason, when introverts take an 8 function assessment, the scores for their auxiliary function might come out higher than the scores for their dominant function.

    Whichever function is your dominant is also known as your "hero" function because for you personally, this is the function that saves the day. This is the function you know you can depend on.

    Your dominant function is fairly well developed by age 13 - 16. In fact for most people it will be the only function developed at this early age

    Auxiliary Function (Role = Support)

    Your auxiliary function is you second strongest function.

    Your auxiliary function develops by age ~ 21.

    The dominant and auxiliary work together and support each other, and they account for ~90% of a person's personality type at age 21.

    The dominant and auxiliary functions meld together and it's difficult to tell them apart.

    For the INTJ, the auxiliary function is Extraverted Thinking (Te).

    When you reach out to help people, you do it first with the auxiliary function and then the tertiary function.

    So look at times you try to help people. You are most likely using your second function. So when an INTJ tries to help people, what first comes out is the Te, which might look like help in organizing the real world, making sense of the world, scheduling, planning, setting goals and other aspects of Te.

    Tertiary Function (Role = Relief)

    The 3rd function develops in mid life but will never be as strong and the first 2 functions. For most people, the tertiary function will always be weak. It's something you can not depend on.

    In mid life it does add it's characteristics to the dominant and auxiliary.

    For INTJs the 3rd function is Introverted Feeling (Fi).

    For the INTJ, the Fi helps them empathize with others. INTJs can be cold and distant until Fi develops. Then they might become more sensitive to other's feelings. The INTJ might even want to spend time helping people, either by coaching, or volunteer work. Something that was unthinkable in the INTJs early life.

    When you reach out to help someone, you first offer the help of your auxiliary function and then you bring in the tertiary function, which as we pointed out may not be all that well developed and dependable.

    For the INTJ, the Introverted Feeling (Fi) will be called upon along with the Extraverted Thinking (Te).

    The Inferior Function (Role = Aspirational)

    The 4th function is called "Inferior" because it is. It's never going to be something you can fully depend on, yet it does have a positive influence.

    It's also called the Aspirational role, because it represents an area for personal growth. It's an area you hope to become better at.

    The 4th function is also considered to be the doorway to the unconscious, which is full of energy and potential. Thus by accessing your 4th function you can tap into the energy, creatively of your unconscious.

    For INTJs, the inferior function is Extraverted Sensing (Se).

    Doing Se type activities will help the INTJ relax and access the energy and ideas in their unconscious.

    Se type activities would be hiking, jogging, riding a bicycle, photographing nature, cooking, oil painting, playing a musical instrument. All things where the 5 senses are used.

    When doing Extraverted Sensing activities, in a low stress, zero pressure way, the INTJ can open up a connection to the unconscious.

    The 4th function will never be that strong. The INTJ would not want to have to depend on the Extraverted Sensing to earn a living. Like the 3rd function, it's more for relaxation, recreation, and self growth..

    Functions 5 Through 8

    The last 4 functions are in the unconscious.

    This means you have no control over them. They are weak and undeveloped from lack of use.

    When you need one of them, they usually let you down or cause trouble for you.

    Please understand that looking at functions 5 through 8 is considered fairly advanced, and you don't need to go that far to get a lot out of personality type. Many people who encounter personality type don't even bother with these Shadow functions.

    5th Function - The Opposing Function

    Whichever function falls into the 5th position is one where you will become stubborn about. For the INTJ example, the 5th function is Extraverted Intuiting. For the INTJ, they might resist doing Ne activities. If they do it, they might not enjoy it.

    Ne activities would include exploring the seemingly random connections between things, brain storming for hours, talking about a wide range of possibilities for the future.

    6th Function - The Critical Parent

    The 6th function is the one where you will become overly critical of yourself and others. Also, it's going to be something you are weak at. It will require a lot of extra energy to perform this function.

    For the INTJ, the 6th function is Introverted Thinking (Ti). Introverted Thinking activities are things like accurately categorizing ideas and concepts, detailed analysis, using complex theories in a detailed precise way, recalling the proper terminology or name for something, creating new terminology, new categories, new theories.


    7th Function - The Deceiver / Trickster

    The 7th function is also very weak. But it has a special feature in that when you do need to use this function, it's going to distort everything you see and think.

    So for the INTJ, their 7th function is Extraverted Feeling (Fe) which has to do with connecting with groups of people, reading people, understanding people's emotions and hidden agendas.

    Most INTJs will tell you that they are relationship challenged. They are not good at reading people. They have a tough time connecting with people. Their relationships can get highly distorted and confused.

    8th Function - Devilish and Destructive

    The 8th cognitive function is the Devil and the Destroyer. Whatever function falls into this position for you will not only be something so weak that you can't count on it, but that it will cause you to do things you will regret later.

    For the INTJ, their 8th function is Introverted Sensing (Si). Si activities that the INTJ will probably have trouble with are: accurately recalling events from the past, recalling details like faces, names, dates, and numbers. Handling and working with details will also be hard.

    References

    Cognitive functions is the work of Carl Gustav Jung. However a number of people have expanded on his work and made it more accessible to the average person:

    1John Beebe MD, a Jungian analyst. "Type and Archetype." An article.
    Part 1 , Part 2



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    Quote Originally Posted by Roww roww roww ur boaat View Post
    why 16?
    While there are a number of reasons we ended up with 16, I don't think they're that important in the end. Really I think you could start with any number you wanted to, and work deductively from there. You can just decide, "If I divide all of humanity into 7 categories, what are the most appropriate resulting categories?" You'll end up with a system that makes plenty of sense, because of course it does. There's no "wrong" way to do that. Inevitably your system of 7 will appear too rigid or simplistic to the people who fall between 2 and 3 or 7 and 1 and you may decide to make subtypes. Enneagram does this but with 9 and gets really specific if you include tritypes, wings, and instinctual variants. Socionics does this, but with 16 and you can go absolutely nuts with subtypes, especially if you combine Filatova's inert/contact subtyping method with DarkAngelFireWolf69's DCNH system. For extra insane levels of specificity you can combine Socionics and Enneagram. Anyways, it doesn't really matter what number you start with. As long as you're careful to avoid contradictions and your categories are distinct enough, the system should function just fine. You could start with 100 if you really wanted to, but I think it would be a poor choice since that's too much complexity right up front. The best system is one that starts with a small number like 4 (the quadras, temperaments, etc.) and then fractals out into infinite levels of detail. Such a system is both easy to comprehend, and also incredibly flexible. Of course you should also explain why you settled on the categories you did, and not all categories are equally useful (I find Socionics to be one of the best systems for a variety of reasons), but my point is just that any number of types is going to be more or less arbitrary, and that's not a bad thing or a critique in any way. I consider this a feature rather than a bug
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    Really thx for the response everyone

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roww roww roww ur boaat View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roww roww roww ur boaat View Post
    Ik might seem like a stupid question lol but why 16? Why not more or maybe it's something else. Socionics is just a system trying to explain things or am i getting it wrong?
    It's based on observation that there are 8 distinct functions. They combine in such a way to give 16 types. You can also use less types if you only want to distinguish the base function (8 types) or only extroversion/introversion (2 types)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tallmo View Post
    It's based on observation that there are 8 distinct functions. They combine in such a way to give 16 types. You can also use less types if you only want to distinguish the base function (8 types) or only extroversion/introversion (2 types)
    Jung explained as if there are 2 (rational, irrational) then those gets multiplied by 2 (irrational to sensing and intuition, rational to thinking and feeling) and again2 based on orientation (introvert, extrovert).

    So it was 23 with hypothetical 24.
    Lots of socionics deals with 25
    DarkAngelFireWolf69 went with 26


    But there is a typology that deals with 29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanguine Miasma View Post
    Jung explained as if there are 2 (rational, irrational) then those gets multiplied by 2 (irrational to sensing and intuition, rational to thinking and feeling) and again2 based on orientation (introvert, extrovert).

    So it was 23 with hypothetical 24.
    Since there are only 8 base functions one could say that there are in fact only 8 types, and kindred types are subtypes of the base function type.

    I just mean that I can understand why Jung went with only 8.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tallmo View Post
    Since there are only 8 base functions one could say that there are in fact only 8 types, and kindred types are subtypes of the base function type.

    I just mean that I can understand why Jung went with only 8.
    I've personally come to the conclusion that there are only 8 types of human beings in the world.

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    To summarize: It's empirically based, the mind has 8 functions. And this typology is based on that. You can of course create a totally different typology based on something else if you want.
    The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.

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    There aren't just 16 types, there is a googolplex of types and a combination of subtypes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roww roww roww ur boaat View Post
    Ik might seem like a stupid question lol but why 16? Why not more or maybe it's something else. Socionics is just a system trying to explain things or am i getting it wrong?
    Socionics defines rules for how the 8 cognitive functions interact and relate and that makes 16 possibilities.

    In MBTI it's something like, 8 cognitive functions as a main one then a secondary complimentary one, which I believe is derived from something Jung said but I don't remember at the moment what exactly.

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    I realize I didn't elaborate on 3.

    Tbh there's nothing to elaborate on, it's just being a winner and achiever and normie "Karen."

    "Ooh look my daughter Courtney won the vollyball tournament." That's nice bitch but it's just volleyball. It represents success, but in a very self-absorbed "preppy" way. It's a very neutral number because those people are annoying but in the grand scheme of things- they aren't as annoying as 4 type people.

    Enneascam 4s are hated and looked down to the most because 4 is literally the shittiest number, but real life 4s aren't like Enneascam 4s- they are more like Unhealthy 8s. Because 4x2 = 8!!!!

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    Anything times itself leads to understanding. 4x4 = 16

    There are four main seasons. ((I know some people think there's more like six but still 4- in a basic bitch way.)) 4 main directions in the world (north/south/east/west), we understand reality by being trapped in 4 sides like inside a television set etc. "That will be about square" - 4 represents revenge and not forgiveness. It's the most negative number, even worse than 6.

    4x4 is 16... both 1 and 6 are unlucky numbers but together they represent heaven. 1 represents ego, The First Evil, loneliness and isolation and separation- 6 represents Satan, the mark of the beast '666' etc. But 1 + 6 is 7, and 7 represents Heaven, '7th Heaven' and being protected from harm. ((God campily TKs any demons/the Unrighteous and those who try to enter his Kingdom undeserving. Praise!)) Satan is actually a good person tho because 6 + 6 + 6 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9. 9 is healing and transformation. Lucifer is here for you and wants to heal you with sexual healing and homosexuality. Socionics is a tool to understand spiritual ascension. Gaslightza might annoy others, but she's here for a reason.

    1 = Negative, 2 = Positive. 3 = Neutral. 4 = Very negative, the most technically negative, being 'stuck in the matrix' literally. Like a sense of bleak numbness and apathy which is actually much worse than being terrified, as being terrified potentinally leads to true spiritual and emotional growth "Dark night of the souls". 5 = Neutral, the most base neutral of neutrality. Represents being calmly logical and in the mechanical world with no feelings. 6 = Quite negative but also misunderstood, represents the most serious and dark psychological ills like horror and sadism and destruction. 7 = Positive, transcending all of that by being an angel.

    8 = Slightly positive. Neutral, but with a slight bent to positive as it represents Eternity. Like Anne Hathaway said, the universe errs on the side of positivity. No offense but I believe what she's saying more than most socionics people because she actually has real world success, fame and money- most of you probably don't and are just middle class losers. Or you are exploiting others for money in sketchy ways that need to be stopped.

    9 = Positive, represents ultimate healing and casting Cure4/Curaja on tanks. And Esuna at the same time. 9 is just 'this is good as it's going to get, I'm healed and it's gravy' etc. Also the peacemakers of the enneascam. 8 also represents authority of course, because 8 is Eternity and people who are authoritative assholes are sadly always here whether we like them to be or not. You have your own authority anyway, so hating 8 doesn't make much sense as it's like hating yourself, and 8 is mostly positive anyway as again, it represents Eternity. Both good and bad, the illuminati- the Eagle holding both an olive branch and arrows etc.

    0 isn't anything, it's just a portal for everything else to exist- and is what allows us to travel to other words. If ur doing a history paper about the 1600s or whatever, you're using 0 - a portal, to travel back and understand that era for what it was, but now it's nothing- in the present moment it doesn't exist- and the current date is 4/10/2022.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shazaam View Post
    Anything times itself leads to understanding. 4x4 = 16

    There are four main seasons. ((I know some people think there's more like six but still 4- in a basic bitch way.)) 4 main directions in the world (north/south/east/west), we understand reality by being trapped in 4 sides like inside a television set etc. "That will be about square" - 4 represents revenge and not forgiveness. It's the most negative number, even worse than 6.

    4x4 is 16... both 1 and 6 are unlucky numbers but together they represent heaven. 1 represents ego, The First Evil, loneliness and isolation and separation- 6 represents Satan, the mark of the beast '666' etc. But 1 + 6 is 7, and 7 represents Heaven, '7th Heaven' and being protected from harm. ((God campily TKs any demons/the Unrighteous and those who try to enter his Kingdom undeserving. Praise!)) Satan is actually a good person tho because 6 + 6 + 6 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9. 9 is healing and transformation. Lucifer is here for you and wants to heal you with sexual healing and homosexuality. Socionics is a tool to understand spiritual ascension. Gaslightza might annoy others, but she's here for a reason.

    1 = Negative, 2 = Positive. 3 = Neutral. 4 = Very negative, the most technically negative, being 'stuck in the matrix' literally. Like a sense of bleak numbness and apathy which is actually much worse than being terrified, as being terrified potentinally leads to true spiritual and emotional growth "Dark night of the souls". 5 = Neutral, the most base neutral of neutrality. Represents being calmly logical and in the mechanical world with no feelings. 6 = Quite negative but also misunderstood, represents the most serious and dark psychological ills like horror and sadism and destruction. 7 = Positive, transcending all of that by being an angel.

    8 = Slightly positive. Neutral, but with a slight bent to positive as it represents Eternity. Like Anne Hathaway said, the universe errs on the side of positivity. No offense but I believe what she's saying more than most socionics people because she actually has real world success, fame and money- most of you probably don't and are just middle class losers. Or you are exploiting others for money in sketchy ways that need to be stopped.

    9 = Positive, represents ultimate healing and casting Cure4/Curaja on tanks. And Esuna at the same time. 9 is just 'this is good as it's going to get, I'm healed and it's gravy' etc. Also the peacemakers of the enneascam. 8 also represents authority of course, because 8 is Eternity and people who are authoritative assholes are sadly always here whether we like them to be or not. You have your own authority anyway, so hating 8 doesn't make much sense as it's like hating yourself, and 8 is mostly positive anyway as again, it represents Eternity. Both good and bad, the illuminati- the Eagle holding both an olive branch and arrows etc.

    0 isn't anything, it's just a portal for everything else to exist- and is what allows us to travel to other words. If ur doing a history paper about the 1600s or whatever, you're using 0 - a portal, to travel back and understand that era for what it was, but now it's nothing- in the present moment it doesn't exist- and the current date is 4/10/2022.
    Lmao, very cool post

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