Eric B
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(From posts I have been making all I different places):
The tertiary and inferior are within the "ego-syntonic" range, so consciously, you're more inclined to engage them (albeit less consciously than the preferred functions, and in a more vulnerable sense), then their shadows, which are ego-dystonic and unconscious. Hence, to consciously try to "use" them, would take more energy.
However, because they are unconscious, they tend to erupt involuntarily. The behaviors then might even be picked up strongly in your responses on K2C (the cognitive process test), and it would thus happen to roughly fit the ship model [Thomson's brain lateral alternatives or "Crow's Nests"].
It also goes along with what I've been saying more recently, that (looking at functions in terms of behaviors), the inferior and a less developed tertiary are likely not "used" so much, but rather exprienced, in a more passive fashion, usually as vulnerability. Their shadows, the Trickster and Demon, are then what erupt, more actively, or reactively, in a way that could more reasonably be described as "used". Hence, coming out "stronger" than other functions, including in many people's cognitive process test results, where the functions are basically defined in terms of behavior or skills-sets anyway.
The tertiary and inferior are within the "ego-syntonic" range, so consciously, you're more inclined to engage them (albeit less consciously than the preferred functions, and in a more vulnerable sense), then their shadows, which are ego-dystonic and unconscious. Hence, to consciously try to "use" them, would take more energy.
However, because they are unconscious, they tend to erupt involuntarily. The behaviors then might even be picked up strongly in your responses on K2C (the cognitive process test), and it would thus happen to roughly fit the ship model [Thomson's brain lateral alternatives or "Crow's Nests"].
It also goes along with what I've been saying more recently, that (looking at functions in terms of behaviors), the inferior and a less developed tertiary are likely not "used" so much, but rather exprienced, in a more passive fashion, usually as vulnerability. Their shadows, the Trickster and Demon, are then what erupt, more actively, or reactively, in a way that could more reasonably be described as "used". Hence, coming out "stronger" than other functions, including in many people's cognitive process test results, where the functions are basically defined in terms of behavior or skills-sets anyway.
