"I'm being an asshole to you. BTW, I just fixed your lazy eye".
excellent point.
i didn't mean to imply that everyone in medicine is automatically good, just that there are a lot of other things house could have done besides medicine that would have utilized his talents in a way that wouldn't have him being somewhat of a pariah - like you pointed out, he's good at a whole lot of things. maybe house
enjoys that ostracized status, but if he really is a Ne dom/aux, then it'd probably also somewhat annoys him to know that his options are very limited because he keeps fucking up in the eyes of the bureaucracy. it is true, though, that in house's backstory, he became a doctor primarily because he was impressed by the respect/authority given to a Japanese doctor despite being from a "tainted" social class because of the man's ability to solve medical cases.
even that leads me to lean towards Ti though. Fi dom/aux are often concerned with being Right in a moral sense, but a Fi dom/aux who is obsessive about their factual correctness is fairly rare, if only because those facts don't usually hold as much meaning in the Fi world (though they might, if they pertain to a specific belief set - i'm
very accurate in my understanding about most religions). i have three NTPs in my close family, on the other hand, and i can easily say that factual, theoretical accuracy with anything they care about - actually, with most things in general - is a big deal with them. they believe in respect and authority given to the person who has the most accurate knowledge; their sense of correctness is very clear-cut.
as is house's. there is
always a logical reason behind the disease, in his mind, and we see him obsess about it following the death of a patient who he didn't figure out. of course i believe there's a logical reason for all diseases too, but it's house's motivation to know that seems Ti-ish. it's not because he feels like if he knows the answer, he'll do better next time (Si) - it's because it bothers the hell out of him that he doesn't know the answer. that's so Ne-Ti. plus house protests social graces because they have no rational application. i think that would be a hard conclusion to come to if you're judging based off Fi, because many social niceties are specifically built to attend to people. that's not to say that Fi dom/aux will always agree with social niceties - hell, i find a lot of them really stupid - but to find
all people-related guidelines without reason would be surprising given Ne and Fi, even given strange Fi morals.
i guess what i'm asking, is i see all this evidence for Ti. a reactionary and somewhat emotional yet emotionally unaware Ti user, but still either dom or aux Ti. where else are others seeing Fi, besides his acting on general subjective principles, which all NPs tend to do?
They may end up helping people, but they aren't saints and helping was not their primary intent. It's the inevitable byproduct.
that's true, but i think that sometimes for NTPs their heart
is in solving the problems. this is very true for my dad, an INTP. he's a doctor, and he doesn't have the best-ever bedside manner. he's just blunt by nature - certainly not a deliberate asshole like house, but he doesn't really have any tact, either - but his desire to help is genuine. he helps best by fixing systems. he's not warm and fuzzy, but he's actually quite humanistic in his principles, and that comes out in what he chooses to devote his time to. sometimes he's callous, and he deals with drug addicts, and a lot of times he pisses them off because he tells them the straight truth of what they really don't want to hear. i see house kind of doing the same thing - but with the addition of the cruel interpersonal power games he plays, of course (tert Fe, imo...)
Mr. Sherlock Holmes said:
It's funny, we never talk about characters as fitting things that are not the direct traditional order (i.e ENTPS, we say they must be Ne Ti Fe Si) but we ourselves often have types that don't quite fit, like I, for an INTP, have a lot of Fi traits as well.
fair point too... i'm still a fan of functional roles, though... one ENTP might have better Si than Fe but i tend to think his Fe will still behave in a similar role to an ENTP with the "typical" functional preference order. like ENFPs vary a lot in how well-developed their Te is, but it was clear from wonka's last thread that almost all of us ENFPs have a similar experience with engaging Te when we go on the defensive. some of us are just less finessed with it than others...