Kalach
Filthy Apes!
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- Dec 3, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
For a bunch of possibility seekers, you guys are sure sticking to what you know.
As much as Ne loves Ni, Si rejects it unless there's a reasonable foundation: "That doesn't feel like something I remember, how can that be possible if it doesn't feel right?"
The inferior function is explicitly rejected by the dominant. That's how the dominant is dominant. And dual seeking behaviour is real, people sometimes even explicitly ask others to do what their tertiary and inferior functions can't be relied on for. Ni runs a real risk of being viewed as faulty Si and rejected. This would take the form of suggestions that, perhaps, just sayin', and don't be offended but, maybe the Ni user has not looked at all the possibilities <rising tone indicating inoffensive question>. And this would be difficult to distinguish from those times when the ENFP is right and indeed the INTJ has not looked at all the possibilities.
The corresponding INTJ road block has it that as much as Ni is impressed by Ne, Se rejects it if doesn't involve movement in the world: "That's just annoying, the only real possibility is where you do this, this and this.
I speak again:
In both of these cases--where the Ne user rejects Ni originated ideas because they lack recognisable foundation, and where the Ni user rejects Ne options because they lack (or contradict chosen) immediate physical application--there is in the user the struggle between the dominant and the rejected inferior. Either the dominant wins out and allows the new possibility and the inferior is (obscurely) educated, or the inferior, being its reactive, barely conscious self, pokes the tertiary and the dominant clutches its skirts around its knees and sticks with the familiar.
This is an impressive and fundamental struggle. Trust and love built around, at least, the auxiliary/tertiary exchanges supports it. The inferior is allowed to relax its deathgrip on what can happen.
Now, what of that *(obscure)* education the inferior gets? The inferior does NOT learn anything about possibilities. It's not a possibilities function. And it's not really the inferior that is educated, is it?
(See, you saps. All of this has been about finding the way forward.)