Andy
Supreme High Commander
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I'm not arguing for MBTI. I'm arguing for a Jungian interpretation as described by most modern authors on the topic. See Berens, Beebe, Thomson, Grant, etc. Myers believed that the tertiary function was opposite in orientation to the dominant. That is clearly not the popularly held belief on this forum.
This is Neo-Jungian typology, not MBTI. Not many people here actually use MBTI! Socionics distorts all of Jung's definitions and is riddled with nonsensical claims (like the VI typing, wtf?) that have no support beyond the fact that Socionics advocates insist that they're superior.
Your metaphor would work great if Jung's theory weren't blatantly superior to Socionics...unfortunately it is.
My appologies for the confusion, I was doing the typical INTJ thing of not bothering to be specific enough for other peoples needs when I myself knew what I was talking about! When I said MBTI, I was really talking about "those theories most firmly decended from the ideas of Jung", including all of Beebe and co. I guess I was using the term MBTI in the loose sense it often gets used/abused in.
Anyway, what I was fundamentally trying to say was that I agree if you that socionics isn't as good as it is made out to be!