So we disagree then how wonderful.
Eer no House makes an educated guess as to the likely ailment, which is proven wrong eliminating it; he continues to systematically take educated guesses until he gets it right.
Yes and he uses the cognitive functions of Ni and Te to do it.
That is fairly obvious to me, but I know this will be a hard sell to someone from the opposite side of the spectrum,
who later in this post discount Jungs work mostly because of age.
A very Ne thing to do btw,
this shit is too old, time for something new and improved.
Your right it is over the top, because he does it on purpose; it’s a mixture of attention seeking and nihilistic apathy.
Define on purpose?
When I use Se to pick up a glass to take a drink I do it on purpose too.
When house says the truth as he sees it it is of course on purpose.
Sure I see his nihilistic approach, but that would be more of his enneagram 8 stance disintegrating to 5 more than anything.
As for attention seeking.
Do you really think? That he is breaking the Fe/Si expectations around him too get attention?
To me it is obviously because he finds them meaningless and stupid.
I percieve the world very similarly, and I never do it for attention,
but because I find it suffocating and controlling.
Like a lot of things that House does it’s a mixture of attention seeking, nihilistic apathy, and a massive ego. It has absolutely nothing to do with respect.
Please don't get hung up on semantics here.
When I say the word "respect" I'm referring to the "spirit worship" of Si.
Once something is a certain way it becomes nearly like a deity to Si.
Hence the clean room takes on almost a holy significance.
But since to dom Ni that is irrelevant and meaningless,
since it is at the bottom of the shadow it is disregarded immediately the facts don't warrant it.
I do that too all to often.
I guess society Fe with Si has coined the massive ego thing to keep types like us in check.
It is so much easier to coin ones opposing perspectives as deviant and unhealty than to accept them for who they are.
I have never understood why people play the whole read what Jung said argument. I have read it and he was vastly more concerned with introversion and extroversion which was what most of that book was about then functions; which as far as I can tell an offhand way to categorise the different forms. Secondly Jungs other works and his contemporaries Freud and Adler have all had their work either heavily modified or written off. Why exactly is Psychological Types off limits; an 80 year old psychology book is unlikely to hold up to modern light.
The age has nothing to do with it.
The reason we follow him is that he was the only one who actually went deep as in (Ni) deep into the subject.
Sure the introversion and extroversion topics are his main focus, but his observations on the different manifestation isn't insignificant.
I can't really say that any other area of psychology has broken any significant ground in this respect since.
Jungs ideas are ground breaking since they for the first time acknowledges significant polarities in human experience.
Unfortunately for you Jung used the Ni/Se axis making most of his great ideas of a very subjective nature.
As far as I can see the functions are observable and relevant every day I speak and interact with others.
Once I know a persons type their actions become ridiculously predictable.
You can sort people with it and be right on what type of person they are and how they will collide or not with your own type stance.
If you haven't observed this, then too bad for you.
I reap rewards everyday from this.
I know that my landlord for example is ESTJ. Hence I know that as long as I pay lip service to his Si static perspectives
by affirming it from a Te stance, everything will be allright.
Anyway the problem with typing tv characters is that it’s not one person’s creation; I mean look at all the different directors and writers. It would probably be more accurate to diagnose him with Multiple Personality Disorder; actually you could probably throw the DSM at him and have a field day.
Well I'll give you that.
Sure he will probably swing a bit here and there, but overall the character stays grounded in a certain type ultimately cause it is the interpretation of one actor.
As for the DSM...
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by American Psychiatric Association.
Well I dunno why you even wanna bring this tool from a totally different frame into this.
Jung was about empowering the individual from his own subjective frame to find a personal resolution to his psychologic problems.
That is what his system is about.
This tool on the other hand is from the other frame, we know what is wrong with you, listen to us the authorities.
Even when the label we pin on you boils down to a really advanced way of saying,
we have no clue.
So we will give you a random drug that makes you really sleepy and unable to manifest anything at all.
We will call this an improvement, mostly because what is really improved is that the person isn't crossing norms and expectations of others.
Sure some conditions are valid and some drugs valid and helpful, but just looking at the history of that instument itself, makes one think twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders
Superficial symptoms
By design, the DSM is primarily concerned with the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, rather than the underlying causes. It claims to collect them together based on statistical or clinical patterns. As such, it has been compared to a naturalist’s field guide to birds, with similar advantages and disadvantages.[54] The lack of a causative or explanatory basis, however, is not specific to the DSM, but rather reflects a general lack of pathophysiological understanding of psychiatric disorders. As DSM-III chief architect Robert Spitzer and DSM-IV editor Michael First outlined in 2005, "little progress has been made toward understanding the pathophysiological processes and etiology of mental disorders. If anything, the research has shown the situation is even more complex than initially imagined, and we believe not enough is known to structure the classification of psychiatric disorders according to etiology."
Cultural bias
Some psychiatrists also argue that current diagnostic standards rely on an exaggerated interpretation of neurophysiological findings and so understate the scientific importance of social-psychological variables.[67] Advocating a more culturally sensitive approach to psychology, critics such as Carl Bell and Marcello Maviglia contend that the cultural and ethnic diversity of individuals is often discounted by researchers and service providers.[68] In addition, current diagnostic guidelines have been criticized as having a fundamentally Euro-American outlook. Although these guidelines have been widely implemented, opponents argue that even when a diagnostic criteria set is accepted across different cultures, it does not necessarily indicate that the underlying constructs have any validity within those cultures; even reliable application can only demonstrate consistency, not legitimacy.[67] Cross-cultural psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman contends that the Western bias is ironically illustrated in the introduction of cultural factors to the DSM-IV: the fact that disorders or concepts from non-Western or non-mainstream cultures are described as "culture-bound", whereas standard psychiatric diagnoses are given no cultural qualification whatsoever, is to Kleinman revelatory of an underlying assumption that Western cultural phenomena are universal.[69] Kleinman's negative view towards the culture-bound syndrome is largely shared by other cross-cultural critics, common responses included both disappointment over the large number of documented non-Western mental disorders still left out, and frustration that even those included were often misinterpreted or misrepresented.[70] Many mainstream psychiatrists have also been dissatisfied with these new culture-bound diagnoses, although not for the same reasons. Robert Spitzer, a lead architect of the DSM-III, has held the opinion that the addition of cultural formulations was an attempt to placate cultural critics, and that they lack any scientific motivation or support. Spitzer also posits that the new culture-bound diagnoses are rarely used in practice, maintaining that the standard diagnoses apply regardless of the culture involved. In general, the mainstream psychiatric opinion remains that if a diagnostic category is valid, cross-cultural factors are either irrelevant or are only significant to specific symptom presentations.
Everything that crosses arbitrary cultural norms and boundaries can in theory get you put in a facility.
All your rights stripped away cause someone else didn't like your attitude.
To cross the excisting paradigm of a Si/Fe manifestation in a culture is probably the single most dangerous thing you do.
The ones who made these standards operated out of certain cultural expectations, and certain symptoms are suddenly abnormal.
You see this best when you move from country to country.
What is acceptable in one culture, will be viewed as deviant in another.
I will type him as INTJ 8w7 as of now.
Feel free to challenge it, but I probably care as little for your stance as you do for mine, if all you have is the age Jung lived in and the DSM.
