Post by Auburn on Mar 22, 2013 16:26:41 GMT -5
Summary of Visual Signals
As Carl Jung, in my personal study of human psychology and behavior I have long been struck by the fact that besides the many individual differences in human psychology there are also typical differences, which can be seen to be an innate psychological disposition. So much so that an individual cannot escape the pattern of their mind, and the path it follows in forming views of reality, even when their native psychology is ill suited for their environment.
It is therefore apparent to me that an individual's mode of experiencing reality is not based on their decision or preference - as their will is incapable of rewriting this native 'hardware' despite when all urges in the individual would compel it to do so.
But what has struck me equally as strongly is the fact that those whom share all, or some, of these native psychological processes also reveal typical expressions at the moments that coincide with the use of the process in question. Through prolonged exposure to this reality I've come to understand the general as well as more specific details of this occurrence. What follows is a synopsis of my observations.
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I have observed that a person's psychic rhythm is first and foremost either directed by the impulse for the extracting of, and adherence of, principles from the observable reality - or by the impulse for the intake of, and fluid navigation in, the perceptions they acquire from the world. Thus my observations coincide with those of Carl Jung's Rational vs Irrational divide, and not Isabel Myers' assertion that the most apparent division lies within the lifestyle a person leads according to the placement of their Extroverted Judgment process in the hierarchy.
Judgment :: The judgment processes are discriminating process; they discriminate between concepts/thoughts/objects. While perception associates elements to each other, judgment contrasts elements from one another and creates (perhaps arbitrarily) lines between elements so that one thing is distinct from another. This occurs in all types, as all types have judgment processes. However, I have also observed that when a person is accessing a judgment process (regardless of where in their hierarchy the process lies) the body becomes rigid and defensive of the judgment and acts as the representative of the idea and stands behind it.
To understand the reason why this occurs we need to understand what it means to have a Self. The human infant is not born with a concept of self; the concept of 'Self' develops in the mind of the individual through the inescapable process of perceiving and discerning between things in the world; of which they are one. Through exposure to reality the oscillation between data intake and the discrimination of that data, the child learns where to draw divides between itself and the world. It develops/simulates an abstraction of itself which it associates with the now unique algorithm of reaction it has formed through a particular set of input it has taken in and the consequential divides it inevitably formed.
Hence the concept of self is entirely the cause of the exposure given to the individual and how, rationally (whether via the rationality of logic or ethic, or both) the organism was inescapably lead to respond. This template of particular distinctions is what the psyche comes to knows as it's "Identity", and it defends this identity (these distinctions) as much as it defends its biological form from physical danger, birthing that rigid tension of body.
The body enters a defense mode, and depending on the circumstances may transition into an offensive mode. A person heavily using judgment will have a complete lack of movements other than vertical and/or horizontal head/body/hand gestures. The linear path of the body motions is a direct consequence of the muscles' tension as well as the mildly offensive nature of judgment which wields its body's projections not too dissimilar weapons. The voice will follow the same rhythm as the body's exacting/calculated movements, complimenting their points of emphasis. The strongest concentration of the tension will lie near the base of the neck and the neck will act as the central pivot point for the rest of the body's movements.
List of Judgment Signals
- Exacting Hand
- Demonstrating Hand
- Pointing Hand
- Head Push
- Body Push
- Head Shake
- Head Nod
- Brow Raise
- Rigid Posture
- Body Grounding
- Meticulous Hands
(to be continued...)
Ti :: Reactive Logic
Ti is also a logic process; one which generates judgments based on criteria that makes no distinction between living and non-living things. Ti distances and separates itself from the emotional influences of the individual and critiques situations from a non-human perspective. As such there is a striking absence of emotional or interpersonal energy when Ti is engaged.
Ti is not a proactive process; it does not externalize itself (seek the object(s)) but rather it seeks the subject. The focal point becomes the self and the energy of the subject recedes inward when Ti is engages in differentiating and contrasting concepts conceived through perception and creating internal consistency within those concepts by identifying & removing imperfection - and it does this discerning in the silence and secrecy of one's mind. This considered, one would naturally question how Ti could be identified.
All functions are discernible, whether introverted or extroverted, as all cause signals to appear - whether by their inactivity or activity. Ti can be identified through the manner in which it dispassionately steals the energy away from the body. When engaged, it is as if the individually immediately abandons the environment. When Ti is engaged, the eyes of the individual will drop downward, the cheeks will flatten and the body will pause/freeze. The wrists may fold inward and become delicate, and the fingers may grow tighter.
Ti in it's purest form is an entirely mute and lifeless process. It is unique among the introverted processes as it is a process which deliberately disassociates itself from not only all objects/environmental factors, but also from itself and the emotions of the body. In this pure state, when all energies are being drawn toward a disembodied subject, the body is neglected and becomes entirely irrelevant. When Ti is high in the hierarchy this disposition to detachment is constant and only counteracted by the contrary efforts of the extroverted processes. Were it entirely up to Ti, it would stay mute, dispassionate and in a disembodied existence forever.