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Not really, cuz that's kind of a subset of Socionics rather than MBTI, and isn't my area of expertise. Most I know is that mirror types are similar but opposite functions, like ENFJ > INFP. And the golden pair is theoretically two types that compliment each other, like ENTP > INFJ.

Personally, I think there are incompatibilities between opposing functions that are sometimes hard to work around; Ne's are gonna be annoyed by Ni narrowing their scope and shooting down their ideas, whereas a Ni will feel annoyed by a Ne being so scattered and never landing on anything for very long.

One is about the "main" defense mechanism of type 6 which is Projection. From what I've read it does make sense for it to be assigned to 6 because their main focus of attention is looking out for dangers, including the motives and intentions of other people to know who is potentially an "ally" or not. But I personally find it hard to imagine how it manifests in real time, the best example I could think of in my own personal experience is whenever I feel insecure or anxious, I imagine others around me as judging me or criticizing me hard in their minds. A common example I've read is apparently when you are angry but you see others as angrier than yourself, to which I'm quite confused with because what does that benefit 6s in projecting their own feelings towards others? How does Projection can overall look like anyways from an outside perspective?

The other question involves with wings. I've read somewhere before that one may use the strategies of their type's wings more first when the person feels more secure, comfortable or not too stressed out in a situation, but once it piles up and the issue becomes worse, that is when their core type's strategies and mechanisms come out. Apparently the reason for this is because the more unfamiliar a situation/environment is, or when the person becomes more stressed out or unhealthy, the more they fall back into their core type's main defenses and BS and therefore more fixated. Is that actually how it usually works? (at least for most people?), like an example being me (6w7) who does rely on rationalizing and cushioning bad experiences through positive reasoning and distracting to get through life, but when the stress piles up and patience is strained, the core 6 reactivity comes out and it looks like I've blew up for other people. Is that how it works usually?

Question 1: Your first example is a good actual way that projection presents itself in 6; it’s basically where the 6 takes its own insecurities and self-doubts or feelings and assigns them to other people, as if the criticism or judgment is coming from outside rather than inside their own mind. So yes, stuff like: “they are doubting me” (I am doubting myself), “they think I am incompetent” (I feel like I am dumb!), “they are up to something” (I am anxious that they might be up to something), etc.

I don’t know that the example of anger is a good one, although I would need to read the original context; I suppose if the 6 is fearful of a situation escalating, they might misread a mild sense of annoyance as something louder than it is. IF the 6 is repressing and denying their own anger, it would be because they would judge themselves harshly for being “too” angry (good people are not angry people, a 6’s super-ego inner voice might say), so they could deny being angry and insist that the other person is the one who is upset, to save face and to be in accordance with their “I am a good person” desire.

Projection in a 6 to a third party looks like them… being paranoid or insecure, insisting they know people’s motives (but it is all negative), etc. A 6w7 can also assume they know what people are up to, but waffle between negativity and optimism or giving them the benefit of the doubt, in order to stay attached. (They upset me, but I won’t allow myself to be upset about it, and I will assign pure motives to them.) But again, this depends on how many positive influences they have in their tritype and wings. A 6-8 will cut people off forever in a way that a 6-1 or a 6-9 is less inclined to do.

For example, from a Te user's perspective in the middle of a debate, a Ti user may argue semantics and become so focused on what a word means that they derail an entire conversation that was making progress a few minutes ago. Ti cares less about workable logic than perfect logic, flawless logic, consistent logic, logic that does not contradict itself. It wants to know that we are all starting from the same place and talking about the same things (which is good most of the time).

Dominant Ti - does this all the time, wants to clarify terms before it engages in debate, tracks inconsistencies and notices when people are being inconsistent, irrational, or self-contradictory. Secondary Ti - does this too, on the spot, but with more other-awareness and a rapier wit. Lower Ti - usually does this under pressure or when it does not want to engage with the ideas on offer, as a stubborn resistance to them (you are wrong, misinformed, not listening, contradicting yourself, etc). It cares a lot less when it likes what it is engaging with (I like the sound of whatever this is about, let's dive into it!).

If high Fe has a people-first sense of morality and ethics (thou shalt not hurt people, I won't allow it, even if it has nothing to do with me; it has everything to do with me, because by hurting others, you are hurting me; I am connected to and care about them...), so does low Fe, only low Fe's approach has less nuance. High Fe goes, "okay, people are all the same but also different, which means different rules apply to situations in different places and times; it's all understandable."

Low Fe can get stuck in a "for the greater good of the human race, these things must be changed / adhered to by everyone," because it lacks nuance. IE, all humans ought to [do beneficial thing here]. It may also not accurately compare situations from a Fe perspective. Like... well, I rewatched John Adams recently, and Thomas Jefferson kept trying to get everyone to agree with him that the American and the French Revolutions were the same, out of a misplaced low Fe sense of comparative ethics. Both peoples want freedom, both peoples should have it, they are all fighting for the same thing, so they are the same.

Which... they were not, something the higher Si-types all around him could see plain as day. Your emotional comparisons don't hold up, bud.

I reccomend you read my ENTP section in 16 Kinds of Crazy, which is a much longer, expounded-upon section than my ENP page on Funky, which is also a good place to begin. Just scroll down to the Ti section.

I won't go in-depth into it here, particularly since I have no firsthand experience of thinking like an ENTP, but -- they focus on taking apart systems, people, and ideas, examining them from a logical perspective to figure out how they work, and then figuring out how to put them "together" again in a way that can be useful to themselves. So, for example, a Fi user goes "MBTI/the Enneagram is amazing, it can help me know myself better!" and an ENTP thinks "this system is great, it explains to me the 16 different ways people think, so I can understand them and sometimes figure out how to make them do what I want!"

AKA, if I know this type's buttons, I can push them and the results will be what I want them to be (which is not always a bad thing; sometimes it's a good thing to know how people work, and to convince them not to do all the stupid or selfish things). Once they know how something works, they can immediately start using it. An ENTP friend spent about two hours one afternoon reading about Enneagram subtypes, spent time alone in her head deconstructing each one to get a complete and total understanding of it from the inside out, and then felt comfortable in applying it and using it to type people.

ENFPs focus on people, usually ENTPs focus on systems, ideas, and innovations. That's just how their logical brain is wired.

I assume this is an Enneagram question?

SP-blind: doesn't understand personal safety, know how to build a sustainable lifestyle (financial independence or security, how to keep their body from falling apart down the line, or create habits), or how to moderate and attend to their physical needs (sleep, food, comfort, etc).

SX-blind: doesn't understand the need for sexual displays and hooks or think much about the exact kind of person they want to physically attract, know how to enhance what is weird about themselves to lure in some people and repulse others sexually, and is unwilling to risk their safety or reputation to pursue someone on "a whim."

Most of the time, we get along fine. She thinks I’m highly creative (I am) and a weirdo (also true) and too emotional, whereas most of the time, I respect her opinions and factual take on things.

Her inferior Ne is weak; she would rather throw the proverbial abstract baby out with the bath water than have to theorize or rethink something that holds no interest for her. Nonfiction authors who are too vague get tossed aside rapidly. She’s very, very literal, and easily fed up with anything intangible. She can’t see the point of it if it’s not applicable to real life; she did dive into the Enneagram for a little while, because it helped her understand her loved ones better, but easily moved on once she absorbed a few growth suggestions for herself.

Whenever she is around N types (her husband and both her kids), she wants to know how we know that, is there evidence for it, etc. Proof! Otherwise it’s made up and probably not true.

She is a decent proof-reader for me, because she will point out details I didn’t notice (you changed their eye color, you described this the same way in two different places, etc.) or point out the logical impossibility of the situation (if they were in an accident of that scale, even if they had magic, they would still be hurt a lot worse than you wrote, and you seem to have forgotten all about it a few hours later…).

I used to argue that Scarlett had no Fi sense of self and no ethics of any kind; she is very opportunistic and will do or say almost anything to get what she wants. I don’t know that she checks in with herself or lives up to any kind of internal ethical code. And that her drama / emotions come from her melodramatic, “nothing is ever good enough, I want what I can’t have” 4 wing. And all of that is still true, but I am open to reconsidering ESFP for her.

It’s been 15 years since I read the novel, but I do remember her having a lot more of an internal war over her actions than comes across on-screen; she was always dealing with internalized Catholic guilt, but… it was less “am I a bad person?” and more of a “what would my mother say about this? Would she be ashamed of me?” inner process. Which could be low Fe.

Do you know of any INTJ characters that are more mystical like that rather than being more down to earth te powerhouse realist skeptics (the overwhelming majority of INTJ characters)?

Not really mystical but pantheon seems to have something pretty similar to this a lot bc its very Ni Te coded but theres still trippy stuff

I feel like mystical INJ characters seem to be more often INFJ than INTJ is it the Ti?

Fictional INFJs get the mystical trope more often because they lack Te, yes. Low Ti doesn’t require outside evidence to make sense of something, as long as it is internally consistent; and the lower the Ti, the less internal consistency or evidence is required and the more “I believe this, and it makes sense to me” shifts into place. Thus, the mystical INFJ who believes things (I am a psychic/profit, this is how this going to go down, I don’t require or want external proof) is born. It’s also true to some degree in real people, but I have known some very cynical / pragmatic INFJs, and I did know one rather mystical, theoretical INTJ 5w4 for a while. His Te was mainly bluntness in pointing out that everyone else’s thinking was substandard, shallow, and poor, while articulating his own arguments in as few words as possible. But he did have that Ni flavor of being a prophet in the wilderness, able to see things no one else could, focusing on the intangible distant future and on patterns, predicting things, prying open people’s souls and judging their motivations (he had an active 1 fix).

I haven't seen it, but reading up on the character, she seems like a 6-core ISFJ: