zago
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I read your post\s. Lenore Thompson suggests that when a person, even one with a well developed auxiliary function, fails to apply their secondary function to themselves they fall back on the tertiary as a defence mechanism, especially when they come into contact with problems that their usual way operating cannot deal with, in this case Ti.
Furthermore because of this the inferior becomes steadily more unconscious and out of control. I thought i'd mention this because of your post detailing your aversion to Si.
Yes I recall her saying that. So how do you think an INTP for example falls back on Si? Do you think that they negatively define the present in terms of the things they disliked about the past, even though the past has no real/present ability to hinder them in what they want? That's my best guess. What do you think?
I still hold, though, to what I wrote about generally not preferring to use Si, at least not in a good way. Thanks for the insight, I think it could add to my understanding here.