I find that the more I learn about JCF, enneagram, mbti, etc... The more easily I can parse why I make the decisions I do, or react the way I do. At times it feels like it's less about what I want to do and more about "well, I'm a Fi-Dom, so of course I will do x."
Does this make sense? I'm hoping for discussion from others with their own thoughts and experiences about themselves.
Maybe you just use it as a general behavioral tool and find your behavior doesn't change much? That would make it consistent for you and might give you the illusion of losing free will.
These systems all have the same underlining problem of outlining motivations. I guess the way I see it, JCF uses the functions to represent the conscious and unconscious, MBTI the behavior of having a functional role, enneagram more about instincts. But either way you slice it, anything that tries to explain behavior has to talk about motivations in some way or else what is there to talk about?
This is the problem some people have with Jung's types because the unconscious functions don't really suggest an archetype, but motivations. So the big thing is that the more you experience life and become aware of your motivations, you more you understand and can influence them to
change. This is free will and it's always happening, even if you use typology to try to explain everything, life will still happen, and you might change your type, especially experiencing trauma and the resulting neurosis that causes you to lose the faith you once had in something, a rule, a security, system of moral thought, or any such thing. This is probably what individuation is likely about - through understanding all these motivations and the control you have over them you get a clearer picture of your nature. Maybe that's why Jung thought neurosis was a blessing because even though it hurts you, if you come out of it and learn from it, you have a much better idea of the person you are (the archetype that makes you up and no one else shares) behind the more superficially conditioned/mechanical forms of behavior we create to deal with the world. More precisely, we are what we do, as much as how we feel and rationalize to do them.
It's hard to explain probably because it's an irrational idea, but I suppose it has to be to explain the irrational. If you think it takes away free will, I'd suppose you were taking this stuff too literally.
). I think a lot of people give up on it a little too quickly. For me it comes down to, if I'm not special and unique simply by virtue of my existence, what can I create that is special to keep these feelings of non-snowflakeness at bay? Sure, there's nothing new under the sun, but there's a lot that's new to me.
(also, yes I am a 4 but I am having to prove my INFP 4ness against unfair accusations of ENFP 7dom 
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