amelie
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- Joined
- May 23, 2009
- Messages
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- MBTI Type
- XNFJ
I think I cant explain to you what my problem is, I am like in need of a theory to be coherent and to make sense, so I can accept it. If someone i.e. says: there is communism and their is capitalism. And then he says the combination of em both is the best social form, cause everyone on its own sucks, I can understand that.
But in typology terms there is no name for a combined system of mbti and socionics, its only communism and capitalism. I now can say, I am gonna pick out the best of them and merge them to that degree they fit with my reality. Which is prolly the only healthy thing to do. But when it comes to things like for example the INFJ and F issue, you cant merge it.
Everything after that would be real psychology and empathy and such things and my problem is just, I cant graps it cause I just cant. I dont have the ability to make that much compromise, I need to see a pattern behind things.
The description that you posted fits me very well also. I'm not very familiar with Socionics at all, but from what I'm gathering from what you said above, perhaps the problem is that both systems try to categorize people into homogeneous groups when, in fact, there are dimensions involved. So the INFJ does actually resemble the INFP in many ways - and an INFJ who is very close to the middle on J/P would be very similar to a INFP who was also close to the middle on J/P - and those people might be very different than 2 people who were on the extremes of the J and P dimension. Perhaps one system uses a more "extreme" individual than the other? To put it another way - you can (often) divide gender into clear groups, at least by XX or XY chromosomes. But something like socioeconomic status (SES) often uses artificial categories, and some instruments will be more sensitive to levels of SES than others. I may be totally off base about what you mean, not sure.