Of what?
For effect?Of most things.
For effect?
Has no affect.No, affect, as in affection. He's asking whether you intellectualize your emotions, and what role this intellectualizing of emotion plays in your life.
No, affect, as in affection. He's asking whether you intellectualize your emotions, and what role this intellectualizing of emotion plays in your life.
I'm not an NT, but I'd say my emotions show some signs of being partially intellectualized, and I'd say it has a major impact on how I view reality and life. It makes my perspectives differ from the norm quite often, and means I'm not disgusted by all of the things that disgust others, though I am disgusted by some of them, and by some that wouldn't bother most.
My perception is that NTs usually have F paired with S, so they either have their emotions totally intellectualized (which is rare), or they end up with completely raw, irrational, unintellectualized emotions running amok and impacting them in ways they can't make any sense of (which is more common). They often show their rational face to the world, but are actually driven by emotions that arise from complete nonsense.
You made me think about something....maybe NTs are more like SFs in how they deal with their emotions and NFs more ST in how they deal with their logic...
Or maybe not.
Yeah. I think that is definitely possible. Also, SFs are more NT in processing logic, and STs are more NF at processing emotions.
In other words, I think that your two unconscious functions can end up working together and supporting each other in a similar manner to your conscious functions. The main exception is that the second-weakest function sometimes ends up working with the strongest function, while the weakest one never does.
So ironically, it's more likely that an N-dominant NT would be able to intellectualize their emotions to some degree and gain conscious access to them, while a T-dominant NT can't do so, because the emotions are too far outside conscious control due to the conscious mind being ruled by logic. In other words, in the areas where their F comes into play, the conscious mind doesn't get to make any decisions. They can only maintain conscious control by making decisions logically rather than based on values. It's a strong example of the idea that, "The more you tighten your grip, the more sand slips between your fingers."
I thought all NTs generally deal with their emotions as separate objects rather than identifying with them.
You detach from them and analyze them, turning them around in your hands and studying them, so that you can figure out what to do about them.
Yeah, ENTPs and INTJs often sound more deep in their emotion analysis I'd say. I think ENTJs and INTPs are more likely to simply acknowledge them as facts and occurrences.
Exactly.
Deconstructing complex emotional "blurs" into individual slices makes it easier to reorganize the parts into a meaningful logical order.
Doing so helps to better comprehend motivation and reduces difficulty in expressing want.
That's interesting. I was going to suggest my experience was different... but I'm actually an N-focused INTP. I think the N opens up exploration without T immediately shutting things out, it allows N to take the point position and just checks everything N sends back to see if it could make sense.
That's exactly what I meant. But... is "affect" a correct noun?No, affect, as in affection. He's asking whether you intellectualize your emotions, and what role this intellectualizing of emotion plays in your life.
Exactly.
Deconstructing complex emotional "blurs" into individual slices makes it easier to reorganize the parts into a meaningful logical order.
Doing so helps to better comprehend motivation and reduces difficulty in expressing want.
That's exactly what I meant. But... is "affect" a correct noun?
I think their emotional responses at such times tend to have an inferior SF flavor...
Completely random question but how does your Se rank among the other functions?
Please define what you mean by this, thanks.
I bet you'd feel silly if I refused to define it after you'd already said thank you, wouldn't you? I'm tempted to do that just to mess with you.
But, I won't. I care about completeness too much.
What I mean is, they usually seem to process and respond to emotions at that point in the same manner that an SF would, only more haltingly and with less skill than a typical SF.