I responded to this post in another thread and thought it might be better to discuss as a seperate thread.
I hope some have some input to this.
I agree with most of what you wrote here.
When some selftyped INFs and INTs read the descriptions its all about some identity they view themselves in (particularly for teenagers) and in other cases group identity if we take the step into people that are a part subcultures. And not so much about whether they really use that particular function or not. Particularly when you look up a poorly written INFP description and INTp description, I suggest many teenagers see themselves as that.
For example look at the white supremacist website's thread about jung types. A huge percentage of them was typed as either INTJ or ISTJ. Im suggesting that a lot of these so called IXTJs really are not IXTJs but something completely different, but since the group identity of the forum might be stereotypical "IXTJ" a lot will consider themselves just that.
I hope some have some input to this.
Fi is all the things that have been written about it by experts who have studied it. Even if you don't like it.. SO why people keep feeling the need to redefine a well defined concept is beyond me.
Here is an idea for you to consider.. Those things you feel inside of you that seem to contradict descriptions of Fi , contradict Fi.. because they are NOT Fi.. If you recognize something in the description of Ti or Fe or Si or Ne That's because that is what you are using.. It does not mean the Pioneers and practitioners of Typology got it wrong . It means that you ALSO USE OTHER FUNCTIONS.. You are an "FI dom".. that does mean you use Fi in every value judgment situation. Of course you also use Fe and Ti etc etc..
SO, lets leave the descriptions of the functions alone until we are accredited MBTI practitioners.
And let's listen to the pioneers and practitioners when they tell us.. that everyone uses ALL 8 FUNCTIONS to a degree and therefore there is all 16 types inside of us.. Sometimes we are going to see ourselves in others. and sometimes .. despite being an FI dom.. you are going to use Fe or Se in certain situations.
Every function has a good and bad to it.
Thanks
Arc.
I agree with most of what you wrote here.
When some selftyped INFs and INTs read the descriptions its all about some identity they view themselves in (particularly for teenagers) and in other cases group identity if we take the step into people that are a part subcultures. And not so much about whether they really use that particular function or not. Particularly when you look up a poorly written INFP description and INTp description, I suggest many teenagers see themselves as that.
For example look at the white supremacist website's thread about jung types. A huge percentage of them was typed as either INTJ or ISTJ. Im suggesting that a lot of these so called IXTJs really are not IXTJs but something completely different, but since the group identity of the forum might be stereotypical "IXTJ" a lot will consider themselves just that.