Thalassa
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- MBTI Type
- ISFP
- Enneagram
- 6w7
- Instinctual Variant
- sx
hmmmm.... I don't know about that one. Seems like people can have any number of random reactions under stress, especially as they get older, that seems a little too murky to hold up. Especially if someone has a relatively relaxed and predictable lifestyle, and 95 percent of the time they are happy.... Only 5 percent of the time they are revealing their true selves? I'm inclined to think that you're true type is the one that offers the most comfort for your growing needs, so it attempts to cover your processes for the highest percentage of time, (so you can improve and learn and grow with the basic model.)
I think it's substantial to say that people carry the neuroses of the unconsciously rejected self. To prefer a personality type is to reject it's opposite. Some people show markedly different defense mechanisms or reactions to the same situations, and those are usually based in childhood. I think it's pretty safe to say you can type someone by their typical neuroses as well as their strong points, and that is in fact how Jung did it in the beginning. This is actually where we get typology from.
Mr. Cockburn is SMRT.