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Originally Posted by BlueWing
Here is an example that she gives to explain these 'crow's nest functions'--the crow's nest are in bold
INFP
Introverted Feeling
Extroverted Intuition
Introverted Thinking
Extroverted Sensation
Introverted Intuition
Extraverted Feeling
Introverted Sensing
Extraverted Thinking
At first one shall ask, how is Introverted Thinking so hight up there? Isn't INFP the type with inferior Thinking? But nonetheless, they can do well to analyze phenomena around them and when they analyze it, they resemble INTPs, they do especially well analyzing matters that are personal.
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First of all, it makes little sense to say that Introverted Thinking should be this high up. It is a property of the last function of the INFP. No doubt the INFP functions like an Introverted Thinker in many ways, but it does not mean that the actual Introverted Thinking is there. It is really the shadow of Introverted Feeling. Fi resembles Ti when doing analysis, especially that of impersonal nature. In the same way the Se is not really there, it is merely a shadow of Ne. And doubtlessly Introverted Intuition would not be behind Extroverted Sensing. Only behind Extroverted Intuition.
Here is the order that the functions should flow in.
When Feeling develops, both sides grow simultaneously, just one goes faster than the other.
Introverted Feeling
Extroverted Intuition
Extroverted Feeling
Introverted Intuition
*Shadow of Introverted Feeling (Looks like Ti)
*Shadow of Extroverted Intuition (Looks like Se)
Introverted Sensing
Extroverted Sensing
Extroverted Thinking
Introverted Thinking
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I didn't have time to read your entire post (sorry), but I read the INFP part.
Anyway, I was delighted to see that Thompson had organized the functions that way for INFPs. That's much closer to the order that I socred in the function order test than the usually expected Fi-Ne-Si-Te-Fe-Ni-Se-Ti.
(My order was Ne/Fi, Ti/Ni, Si, Te/Fe, Se.)
"No doubt the INFP functions like an Introverted Thinker in many ways, but it does not mean that the actual Introverted Thinking is there."
Why not? When I function like an Introverted Feeler, the actual Fi is there. So, when I function like an Introverted Thinker, why isn't the "actual" Ti there?
Note that I feel that it comes naturally for me to function like a Ti-- it doesn't feel like a mask (like being too extraverted, for example, sometimes feels).
"It is really the shadow of Introverted Feeling. Fi resembles Ti when doing analysis, especially that of impersonal nature."
So. In your opinion, what is the
actual difference between Ti and the Ti-like shadow of Fi?
If the Ti-like shadow of Fi and Ti are identical, why should they be separated? What's the point? If the Ti-like shadow of Fi resembles Ti more than Fi, why not just call it Ti?
Because "but INFP can't Ti"?
No, seriously.