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GliderGuider

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2. M-B turns out to be substantially more complex than the 4-letter main type.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 08:40 AM
Jun 2015

There is also a "functional stack" of four attributes related to the main type, and those need to be considered - especially the inferior function, which operates out of the unconscious.

I had a recent realization that has caused me to drop out of the "numbers of doom" game altogether. It came from reading deeper into this aspect of Myers-Briggs typologies. I discovered that the negative energy suffusing my writing came from an unintegrated inferior function. That (along with childhood parental influences) has also has caused me to misidentify myself as INTP rather than INFP for most of my life - as a thinking rather than a feeling type. As a result I complete missed the fact that much of the energy of my thinking was unconscious Shadow energy. When I read up on the role of the inferior function in Meyers-Briggs, the source of the psychic energy that has screwed up parts of my life so thoroughly became clear.

It seems that re-integrating my thinking ability into my whole personality is going to look a lot like Shadow work.

Speaking of the Shadow and its associated Jungian archetypes, the image that came when I had the breakthrough was fascinating. I appeared to myself as an Aztec priest on top of a pyramid performing a sacrifice. My victim represented all of humanity, and the still-beating heart that I was holding up in front of their horrified dying eyes was labeled "Hope"...

No more.

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