Relating to archetypes, how does Ni (Pi) fit better than Se (Pe)?
Then let's agree to disagree on that point.
Like I said, the deliberateness. To me, it seems that the primary cognitive function operating is a kind of internal representation of an idea.
Eminem's typing is one of the ones that I'm most certain about, because I look through it with the INFJ lens and it all fits. A lot of people I'm not totally sure of because I can't necessarily see how it's all manifesting, it's just a suspicion, but I feel like the typing of Eminem as INFJ goes beyond a suspicion. If Eminem turned out to be an ESTP, it would shake the foundations of my basis for typing other people because it's like... if I'm got
that one wrong, then I can't be too confident about the others. Whereas other typings it's like... if I'm wrong there, so what, I can adjust to that. That's probably the majority of typings because I often don't spend too much time on a typing, I just look at an interview until I'm like... yeah that fits, I'll go with that for now. Eminem is one of the music artists I've listened to the most and spent the most time thinking about.
So I guess you want something more specific than that, but typing, for me at least, is such a subjective process. It can't be too easily verbalised
why a particular manifestation is indeed a manifestation of a particular cognitive function, but insofar as the approach is valid it all, it just seems like it has to be that way.
So yeah, Eminem does have a lot of Se, but to me, that's inferior Se turned way up. I can't read it as being the dominant process, it just doesn't click with my mind. The Ti... it's an INFJ's Ti of acting unaffected when you're really impassioned. It's ego NiFe, alterego TiSe, not ego TiSe, alterego NiFe.
For a more typically "NF" song from Eminem, one of the best examples is Beautiful Pain. You could say that's just the NF side of ST, because the ST-heavy stuff, if that's what it is, is the majority. So contrast with a more TiSe song - Don't Front. My claim is that's the shadow TiSe. It definitely activates my TiSe though. But generally Eminem activates my Ni. It stimulates the imagination. Eminem is imaginative. I don't think he's a "bit" imaginative, and plays it up, I think that's his primary process. The performance is a performance.