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Originally Posted by athenian200
Wasn't this originally posted on cognitiveprocesses.com? This particular set of archetypes has a few flaws that I've seen. For one, I'm not necessarily opposed to all of my shadow processes. Secondly, I would say that my inferior function is the one that bothers me the most, and causes me to have outbursts. Thirdly, they haven't shown that there is any definitive pattern of development for the opposite four functions, that is mostly a guess.
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I posted a summary from a book called
Building Blocks of Personality Type by Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker and
Dynamics of Personality Type: Understanding and Applying Jung's Cognitive Process by Linda V. Berens. Both are based on Jung's archetypes.
Building Blocks goes into more detail about when the processes develops and how they interplay so you may want to read it for more information. If you have beef with the descriptions take it up with Jung.
Most psychoanalysts say the functions develop like this:
Dominant
Auxiliary
Tertiary
Inferior
Shadows (5,6,7,8)
Lenore Thomson says they develop like:
Dominant
Auxiliary
Shadows (5,6,7,8)
Tertiary
Inferior
If Thomson's development pattern is right that may be why you have more problems with your inferior. Personally, I think I'm aware of when I'm using Ti and although I can't access it on demand, I can see it at work in myself. The shadows I have not a clue about.
