Isis-Prométhée

Voici comment, pour ma part et en tant que féministe, j’ai l’habitude d’en résumer l’enjeu :

Le genre est au sexe ce que la race est à la couleur de peau.

Le sexe et la couleur de peau sont des réalités biologiques, identifiables et mesurables (organes visibles, taux d’hormones, etc.).

Par contre, la race est une des catégories formées par la pensée raciste. C’est l’idéologie selon laquelle nos aptitudes et notre psychologie sont déterminées par notre couleur de peau.

De même, le genre est une des catégories formées par la pensée sexiste. C’est l’idéologie selon laquelle nos aptitudes et notre psychologie sont déterminées par notre sexe.

La pensée raciste à l’état pur veut que le Blanc ait (entre autres) des facultés intellectuelles supérieures au Noir, qui serait plutôt un être d’instinct. “Blanc” et “Noir” sont compris comme étant des essences intérieures, qu’on ne peut pas dépasser : on leur a donné comme marqueur de reconnaissance extérieure la couleur de peau, et on les a appelé des “races”. La pensée raciste sert à légitimer un modèle politique de domination des gens d’une catégorie de couleur de peau sur ceux d’autres couleurs ; en l’occurrence, la domination des Blancs sur les personnes de couleur. On l’appelle aussi le suprémacisme blanc.

Meh: Your stupidity has caught the INTP’s attention, but does not personally bother them.

Okay then: You have now managed to impress the INTP with your stupidity. Blunt but non-aggressive corrections may be in your near future. However, the INTP is still not personally affronted by your idiocy.

Annoyance: You must have a really big gob and no filter because you have somehow managed to personally offend the INTP, a rather unusual occurrence. This level of anger is most often achieved through the perpetrator’s complete disregard for logic and/or stubborn ignorance. The INTP will likely avoid you, keeping their replies to you short and often decorated with a sarcastic, “oh really?” Subtle, snarky remarks and insincere, patronizing smiles mark this level of anger when dealing with acquaintances or casual friends. Friends that the INTP values will likely not receive the poor treatment, but instead either a cold shoulder or blunt, direct explanation of their wrongdoings.

Unadulterated Rage: Somehow, you have managed to push the INTP past their tipping point. You must have either betrayed their trust (which is a valuable thing that they give to few) or disrespected them while invading their personal space. At this point, the INTP’s typically locked-in filters will suddenly disappear, and you will experience the biggest whip-lash of your life as they go from calm, cool, and collected to a raging mess in less than five seconds. The INTP may either yell incoherently, stuttering and stumbling over words in their fury, or shout precise, calculated words meant to cut you down as well as display their hurt. Their voice will likely reach a decibel which you have not heard from them before and their entire body will be tensed. However, after only a few minutes, the INTP will recognize their lack of control and likely disappear to isolate themselves and sort through their feelings. Do not go after them immediately but also do not assume that the INTP will approach you to resolve things. They will leave that duty to you as a sort of test to see if you value their friendship enough to apologize and set things right. Most INTPs will not reach the Unadulterated Rage level of anger if they are in any way to blame for the upheaval of their emotions, so it is up to you to patch things up. On rare occasions, the INTP may be pushed to this point of anger simply through outside stress sources. If this happens, the INTP will likely later apologize for their outburst and may or may not give an explanation depending on the depth of their trust for you.

1. You’ve had five forkfuls of soup already before you realize something is off.

2. You had to reread #1 multiple times to understand what was “off.“

3. You often floccinaucinihilipilificate.

4. You actually searched up that word.

5. After searching up that word, you will use it in casual conversation.

6. You’re thinking "that’s so me! …But wait, is it really?” as you read these statements.

7. You tack on “that’s debatable” to the end of each of these statements.

8. You can remember the names and properties of each element in the periodic table, but you have no idea what you ate for breakfast.

9. You debate with everyone, about EVERYTHING.

ENTPs are defined by the functional stack:

Dominant: Extraverted Intuition (Ne)

Auxiliary: Introverted Thinking (Ti)

Tertiary: Extraverted Feeling (Fe)

Inferior: Introverted Sensing (Si)

The ENTP is an extravert (E) who likes to remain open (P).

ENTP’s Jungian pair partner = ENFP

ENTP’s dominant function opposite = ESTP

ENTP’s shadow opposite or functional opposite = ISFJ

ENTP’s mirror opposite = ESFP

ENTP’s complementary opposite = INTJ

A recent cartoon for New Scientist:

In my last post I made a joke that INTPs are crap at holding grudges, and the more I thought about it, the more it piqued my curiosity. I’d like to analyze anger in INTPs with y’all, if you don’t mind. When I researched, most of what I found was written subjectively or by someone, well, unwilling to acknowledge they suffered from an anger management disorder.

First, I do understand that a person’s ability to harbor a grudge is greatly affected by their mental health, so I’ll stipulate that I’m looking at your average healthy INTP (if you’d like to discuss anger in unhealthy INTPs, please do so). INTPs are slow to experience any emotion, especially anger, which we are quick to realize will cause irrationality on our part. But of course there are times when you just can’t avoid it.

For INTPs there seems to be two basic types of anger: that affected by an Fe grip, and that which is not. Anger uninfluenced by a grip is generally a sort of righteous anger. The INTP’s values or principles usually have been compromised in an inexcusable way, and they will use all their functions to rectify this. Things that would instigate this (probably healthy) anger might be the willful spread of misinformation or deceit of others, manipulation or betrayal, and abuse or cruelty. Using their anger, which is still of course a very strong emotion, the INTP will quickly and effectively resolve the root cause of the problem if they can, using all their functions. It takes a lot for an INTP to be angered in any way; anger, like most emotions, is pushed to the side because it affects our rationality and judgment.

Then there is the unhealthy anger, or that influenced by an Fe grip, and this is much more personal and subjective. The anger might be the root or result of the grip, but in either case, it will be explosive and harmful, perhaps to the INTP, perhaps to others. From personal experience, anger paired with an Fe grip occurs when I feel threatened and insecure. I was a victim of abuse in the past, and with any indication that someone is attempting something similar, I can be prone to lash out in a highly emotional Fe grip. This is the kind of anger that leads to things being thrown, absolutely cutting words being yelled, etc. INTPs can use Fe to absolutely destroy you if they want to, using just the right words to tear your soul to shreds. (That’s a horrible way to deal with anger, and I’m not at all proud of it.)

I don’t have much experience with Fe grip anger, but I do know it doesn’t last very long. If the INTP can be removed from the situations, chances are they’ve released all the emotional energy they’re capable of, will shut down, and recuperate accordingly. There’s also good chance the INTP can be brought down from the anger and the grip in twenty minutes or less, but the trick is removing them from the situation.

These are examples of extreme anger; I wasn’t talking about your day-to-day irritation or annoyance. After experiencing any emotion so strongly, the INTP will need time away from people any sort of stimulation, mental or emotional. Afterwards they’ll probably want a person they know very well and trust to provide them with a sense of emotional stability, to do mundane things with them like cook a meal or watch cartoons. After a day, max., all traces of the anger will most likely have vanished (again, so long as the situation is resolved/the INTP is removed from it). We are crap at holding grudges, but that’s not a bad thing; we don’t see the need to waste our emotions on it. Worst case scenario, we’ll ignore you on a somewhat permanent basis.