OrangeAppled
Sugar Hiccup
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2009
- Messages
- 7,626
- MBTI Type
- INFP
- Enneagram
- 4w5
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
Type 1 - Reaction Formation.
Type 2 - Repression.
Type 3 - Identification.
Type 4 - Introjection.
Type 5 - Isolation.
Type 6 - Projection.
Type 7 - Rationalization.
Type 8 - Denial.
Type 9 - Narcotization.
I don't know what the names are for everything. I know that I compartmentalize (i.e. I don't think about certain things in certain contexts so as to not have to resolve possible conflicts). I get sad sometimes when I should be angry and anxious when I should be sad, etc - I sort of smother one emotion in another, perhaps one which feels less vulnerable. For instance, envy can get painted over with melancholy or a kind of unspecific resentment at the universe. Insecurity can get painted over with a kind of elitism (i.e. contemptuousness for mundane things).
I still don't full grasp introjection for 4s and how it connects to the core fixation. I suppose it is taking stuff too much to heart, as if anything bad that occurs is somehow an indicator of your innate significance as a person; and good things get internalized as your ideal image.
I actually wrote this some time ago, and it yet, it doesn't fully click for me:
I also suspect it stems from lack of mirroring from caregivers - hence a feeling of being "different" and often in a flawed way.
It's easy to see how this could happen with INFx children, who make up the majority of 4s, but who may not see themselves in their parents (who are more likely a very different type).
I also wonder how many other 4s grew up being told they were gifted and unusual? I know I internalized these comments as an "identity".
I see identification easily in me (identifying with tastes, as if liking certain things somehow says something about me), and my most obvious defense mechanism is probably isolation. This is the most conscious, deliberate one, and even knowing that, I run to it like shelter in a storm every time.
I am not surprised to see projection, narcotization and identification for 6,9 and 3 respectively. Being the cornerstone types, these most basic defense mechanisms occur in most people to varying degrees. There is a difference when it's some conscious maladaptive coping mechanism and something that affects your whole psychology though. So I am sure I engage in all of these, but not so surprisingly, I have to think hardest about the 4 defense, as it seems to permeate my very consciousness.
Type 2 - Repression.
Type 3 - Identification.
Type 4 - Introjection.
Type 5 - Isolation.
Type 6 - Projection.
Type 7 - Rationalization.
Type 8 - Denial.
Type 9 - Narcotization.
I don't know what the names are for everything. I know that I compartmentalize (i.e. I don't think about certain things in certain contexts so as to not have to resolve possible conflicts). I get sad sometimes when I should be angry and anxious when I should be sad, etc - I sort of smother one emotion in another, perhaps one which feels less vulnerable. For instance, envy can get painted over with melancholy or a kind of unspecific resentment at the universe. Insecurity can get painted over with a kind of elitism (i.e. contemptuousness for mundane things).
I still don't full grasp introjection for 4s and how it connects to the core fixation. I suppose it is taking stuff too much to heart, as if anything bad that occurs is somehow an indicator of your innate significance as a person; and good things get internalized as your ideal image.
I actually wrote this some time ago, and it yet, it doesn't fully click for me:
I also suspect it stems from lack of mirroring from caregivers - hence a feeling of being "different" and often in a flawed way.
It's easy to see how this could happen with INFx children, who make up the majority of 4s, but who may not see themselves in their parents (who are more likely a very different type).
I also wonder how many other 4s grew up being told they were gifted and unusual? I know I internalized these comments as an "identity".
I see identification easily in me (identifying with tastes, as if liking certain things somehow says something about me), and my most obvious defense mechanism is probably isolation. This is the most conscious, deliberate one, and even knowing that, I run to it like shelter in a storm every time.
I am not surprised to see projection, narcotization and identification for 6,9 and 3 respectively. Being the cornerstone types, these most basic defense mechanisms occur in most people to varying degrees. There is a difference when it's some conscious maladaptive coping mechanism and something that affects your whole psychology though. So I am sure I engage in all of these, but not so surprisingly, I have to think hardest about the 4 defense, as it seems to permeate my very consciousness.
