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[Jungian Cognitive Functions] Your Dominant Function Is Just A Disguise

Mal12345

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Why do you hide behind your dominant function? What are you hiding from?
 

skylights

i love
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Fear of lack of meaning and significance to existence. I openly acknowledge that fear and know there is no real evidence to argue against it but I choose to fight it anyway.
 

Mal12345

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Fear of lack of meaning and significance to existence. I openly acknowledge that fear and know there is no real evidence to argue against it but I choose to fight it anyway.

Can you expand on this?

P.s., thanks for the private youtube link in your sig, you tease!
 

Glint

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Fear of being useless, fear of being rejected if I'm not competent and knowledgeable.. because I'm most certainly useless when it comes to seeking acceptance/liking by virtue of my personality.
Even if I'm not unlikeable, there are so many people (the majority I'd say) that are more likeable than me, and that's all that matters when it's time to choose who gets voted off the island.
 

TaylorS

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Fi:

Fear of nihilism and lack of meaning and purpose.

You see this fear in a lot of the writing of the late David Foster Wallace, who I suspect was an Fi-Dom, himself. He couldn't handle it and he ended up killing himself.
 

PocketFullOf

literally your mother
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Ti...I don't like people to see my flaws or weaknesses - I'm a perfectionist. Unusual for entp 7w6, but we're all unusual in our own way.
 

Doctor Cringelord

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Fear of becoming obsolete; fear of no longer finding pleasure in new knowledge and experiences.
 

Coriolis

Si vis pacem, para bellum
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Why do you hide behind your dominant function? What are you hiding from?
I don't. When I feel the need to hide, I use Te - far more effective. I hide from suspected drains on my resources that I would prefer not to confront at the moment, or perhaps at all.
 

EJCC

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Dominant function: Te
Hiding from: Sensitivity, feeling things too strongly, chaos/lack of control
 
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