Posted by Shadowsinger on May 26, 1998 at 18:40:27:
In Reply to: Instinctual Subtypes posted by Gui on December 02, 1997 at 03:29:07:
: I am very interested learning more about instinctual subtypes: self-preserving, social, and sexual. I feel that my question of whether I am a 5w4 or 4w5 is dependent on whether my instinctual needs or drive is assuaged. I am a very happy 4w5 and an intensely searching from behind a veil 5w4.
: I am INFJ, and so logically see myself as a 4 with dominant introverted intuition, but I act like an INTJ when my instinctual needs are not met and so pose as a 5. Can anyone else relate to this???
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Speaking as someone who was classified as INFJ and who has heavy analytical tendencies, I can relate. After much reading, I think I'm probably a 4w5 with a toe in 3. (As far as I'm concerned this is possible. How else do you explain hyperactive analysis, codependency, and workaholism in the same person...?)
I think because the 4 aspects of my personality were unacceptable, I developed later on the skills that would leave people branding me as an overanalytical five - I became a five because nobody liked fours in my family or my environment. When I'm under a lot of stress I can either swing forward to five, backward to three or into my two shadow.
Any or all of: overanalysis and crippling doubt that I'm wrong (five), overextending my physical energy into work to avoid my feelings (three) or caretaking/caresearching to avoid coping with difficulties in my own life (two) are all not only possible, but pretty likely - the flip-flopping happens on a weekly basis.
When I'm not in crisis, (yeah, right - panther/fives are almost always in crisis by nature but that's neither here nor there), I tend to reach twards the teaching and synergy aspects of the one, relating my ideas clearly and fairly and speaking from a place of personal truth. When I'm remotely healthy, this is where the INFJ people typify me as comes in.
Also known as moving forward into the one space where I can lead without being an emotional tyrant. But for me to give up the thought and speak from my intuition is the challenge.