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Originally Posted by heart
But it's going to be a hell of an internal war between wanting harmony with other people and wanting to be true to self and not wanting any constraints. Continual angst over this issue. The only relief found in introverting and getting away from the pressures that other people provide.
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An INFP without a sufficiently strong Thinking faculty will unconsciously have their values conform to the whims of others. In order to maintain harmony with oneself the INFP will convince himself that this was done purely out of his own will and had nothing to do with the wishes of others.
There will be no angst because self-deception can stretch as far as the INFP's whims shall command, and we are unlikely to see many limitations to this because the salient drive of such a person is the will for harmony.
Having established the values as described above the INFP will simply feel true to himself whilst being almost entirely ruled by the whims of the people around them on a profoundly unconscious level.
Consistent inner conflict you speak of tends not to be observed in INFPs until they are able to use Thinking adequately to a notable degree. When Thinking truly becomes a force in the psychic economy of this type.
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Originally Posted by Eric B
Interesting.
How would Fe differ in that? I guess, it would be harmony in the immediate area at the expense of the grander scale?
And then, you have the NFJ's preferred Fe (which will be used similarly because of the common NF goals), and then, the NTP's weaker, nonpreferred use. This will also figure int he difference between the two types.
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Immediate environment or distant. Internal harmony or that with others, are all conceptual questions. In other words, they require Thinking. This is not the skill of Fi or Fe. All they know is entertaining warm feelings. This manifests in their longing for harmony with others as instinctually they recognize that this is the greatest source of warm feelings. The only difference between Fi and Fe is that the psychological mechanism of the former predisposes them to believe that their conformity to the will and harmonization with the will of other people is internally inspired, whilst the latter is realist enough to see that their act is one of direct acquiescence.