Athenian200
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I was reading Jung's work recently, and I noticed that it said that in types with dominant thinking, feeling would be the most repressed function.
Now obviously thinking types have emotion to some degree (if only on the level of instinct), because they value efficiency and correctness, and want to achieve their goals/understanding and survive. If they they were completely objective and detached, no particular outcome or action would be perferred over any other, and they would probably allow themselves to stagnate and die.
However, I've noticed that most thinking types seem to have far more emotional development than this. I suppose it's possible that thinking types respond to humor because it helps them comprehend humor in general, and don't enjoy it for its own sake. Also, perhaps they only value interpersonal relationships because they see people as another system for them to explore, and they master the intricacies of communication simply to study them, showing false compassion and interest only to gain deeper access and further data?
But from my perspective, it doesn't look that way. It seems when I look at them that they actually experience emotion on a deeper level, not just a primative, instinctive one. Perhaps it's simply an elaborate ruse for the reasons mentioned above, but if it is, it's a very accurate and well-conceived one.
So, which is it? Wouldn't it be difficult to tell the difference?
Now obviously thinking types have emotion to some degree (if only on the level of instinct), because they value efficiency and correctness, and want to achieve their goals/understanding and survive. If they they were completely objective and detached, no particular outcome or action would be perferred over any other, and they would probably allow themselves to stagnate and die.
However, I've noticed that most thinking types seem to have far more emotional development than this. I suppose it's possible that thinking types respond to humor because it helps them comprehend humor in general, and don't enjoy it for its own sake. Also, perhaps they only value interpersonal relationships because they see people as another system for them to explore, and they master the intricacies of communication simply to study them, showing false compassion and interest only to gain deeper access and further data?
But from my perspective, it doesn't look that way. It seems when I look at them that they actually experience emotion on a deeper level, not just a primative, instinctive one. Perhaps it's simply an elaborate ruse for the reasons mentioned above, but if it is, it's a very accurate and well-conceived one.
So, which is it? Wouldn't it be difficult to tell the difference?