JCFrustrated no more!

[Galena]

[Never mind. It all just clicked. ]

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I'm remembering why I haven't really read about cognitive functions in a while with intent to type myself. While Ni/Se was easy to establish over Si/Ne, and that I am a feeler, the headache begins when I start pitting Fi against Fe.

Type is about how you've been for most of your life...and while I am in a much better place now, most of my life has been pretty unhealthy. The data I have to go by is inconsistent and not of a nature I'd want to ask questions about publicly. Whether I am Fi or Fe in the end, I will have behaved in ways weirdly out of type for that function. At the worst of times, I have behaved counter to my values, and in the typing process I have to find to find a way to use JCF language to explain those times in a way that doesn't distort the theory to the point of loss of credibility. Actually, that's kinda why I go into typology in the first place - the question of what the hell came over me back then?

One other thing I am learning is that while the base materials like Jung are worth the challenge of reading, I thrive on more concrete information and find myself craving examples while reading about theory. That's the learning style I've had all my life - if I can't compose an image in my head of a concept, learning it is going to be trouble.