Type Dynamics - basic stuff everyone should know

[NGene]

http://www.infj.org/typedynamics.html

This link is very helpful if you know what the different functions are (like Ti, Ne etc) but don't know how they are related to the different MBTI types.

If you're able to see the function preference by looking at an MBTI type (say, ISTJ) or if you're able to see the MBTI four-letter code by looking at the favored functions (say, Si-Te), this link will be no use for you. Otherwise, it's very useful. This is the link that helped me "translate" the codes. As a side effect, it further convinced me the J/P scale is arbitrary and just a way of indicating a preference.

There's also other pretty basic stuff well and clearly explained at the INFJ site. I recommend.

[Johnny]

Nice quote:"It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents." Henri Poincare

At any rate, for those of you who are like me and like pictures, there's a pie-graph one can go to from Hush's link to Jung's Lexicon. It's located in the definition on the auxiliary functions, and though it doesn't explicitly discuss E/I interaction between the functional types (as I could tell, anyway), it helped me to understand how Jung envisioned the functional types to work together and, in turn, be able to follow the "magic" behind MBTI's system a little better as NGene's link attempts to do.

[paladinoflunaria]

That is a nice quote- especially in the case of the Poincare conjecture.

I figured how the functions are ordered on my first day of MBTI research, but thanks.

It seems that INFJ has more on their site than does INTP.org.

Found this on the INFJ site:


INFJ - cold on outside, warm and fuzzy on the inside
INFP - warm and fuzzy inside and out
INTP - warm on the outside, hard as a rock inside
INTJ - cold and hard inside and out


That's interesting.