I've seen both the Ti and Se sides of you on this forum.
And you can't tell which is more dominant? Why am I not surprised.
(Just referring to how I can't either. Though been leaning ISTP.)
Oftentimes it is seen that the dominant and auxiliary functions are about on par with each other in terms of development and even sometimes with use. Therefore, the most efficient way to determine one's type between two mirroring types is the inferior function. Do you struggle with expressing your emotions or struggle with seeing the meaning behind things more? (oversimplified, but still qualifiable)
Meaning behind what kinds of things? Real life situations? I don't see any meaning for those in most cases. I can't exactly call that a struggle honestly because I don't even try. Real life is just real life, nothing more, nothing less. If I were to stop and think about meanings, I'd lose contact with the world. I intensely dislike that.
Don't confuse that with me being in my head analysing something. I'm ok with that, I just don't do it while there's action. I do it later. But, that's just analysis of stuff and it's not usually about attaching meaning beyond that. The latter feels a bit foreign to me, as if I just didn't have the means to connect actual experiences with such abstract meaning. I'm not saying I'm averse to the idea though. Only averse to it while I'm actually living through an experience
I'm however good at seeing the meaning of concepts, though that may just be Ti. Getting to certain kinds of such meanings does require extensive analysis and thinking about it, though, until I get the insight. So I think that's more Ni. I'm only really good at this stuff because I have the will and the patience to get there.
As for expressing emotions, if I ever feel something, which isn't often with the exception of anger, I absolutely have no problem with expressing it, in fact, I cannot *not* express it in most cases. It requires really strong self-control to prevent expression and I often don't manage to control it. As for anger itself, I have no qualms about expressing it and don't even try to hold back for sure.
I'm going to also say that (MBTI) Fe in general seems to cause me a lot of negative issues while Ni doesn't really, it just seemingly doesn't affect much in my life (beyond assisting Ti with understanding stuff), just sometimes I realize that I've just absolutely missed something that I shouldn't have... if I had been using at least a tiny little bit of Ni.
So duh, what do you say this means, ISTP or ESTP?
(The anger stuff, I chalk up to enneagram.)
I could, and I think I might be able to use it with stress levels.
Extreme Stress or Anger
(IxTP) Fe - Begin expressing their negative feelings excessively and uncontrollaby
(ESxP) Ni - Become excessively paranoid and negativistic
etc.
Eh, that's more often Fe for me then. Then Fe == inferior, unless [MENTION=13589]Mal12345[/MENTION] is right that these descriptions are actually more like typical tertiary functions.
As for the Ni one, I experience that less often, I'm not really a paranoid type but sometimes I do get really negativistic under more extreme stress. The Fe stuff is different in that it doesn't need that much extreme stress to "come out" so it happens more often. It passes more easily as well.
Make sense?
I didn't try to exhaust all the theoretical possibilities with one short post. And empirical evidence would be great, even of the anecdotal variety. My point was to clarify my beliefs regarding functions and how they relate to one another. It's not as if Ti stops working during times of stress, it merely takes on a secondary role. It remains theoretical in nature, although not necessarily abstract - it still serves to assist whichever function has taken on the dominant role. It does this via rationalization - whether during or after the stress period is a moot point.
...yeah empirical evidence. This about Ti taking a secondary role is interesting though. What does dominant Se look like in such a secondary role?
