Neurotypology by Raederle

  Almost every type has another type (or two) which it will gravitate toward believing that it is. This mistyping is often more of a psychological defense rather than a cognitive error. For male INFPs (and possibly some female INFPs growing up in highly intellectual households), their common mistype is INTP.  (Male) INFPs often Mistype as INTPs All types tend to over-identify with their mix-max function (fourth position) on their stack. (To learn about functions and stack, read: The Eight Cognitive Functions .) For the INFP, their min-max function is Te. Thus, it is natural for INFPs to laud thought-based capabilities in themselves – and, perhaps because it is Te rather than Ti, INFPs sometimes highly laud the structural, mechanical, and systems thinking in others. INFPs, like all four IN** types, are deeply talented with introspective (I), abstract (N) thought. Thus, this quadrant of types has much in common. Your type, however, doesn’t dictate your IQ (although INTJs are the...

Cognitive Functions; An Introduction If Carl Jung had been alive today, he might have rolled his eyes at how his ideas have morphed into internet quizzes and personality memes. Let’s explore how he got from, “I observe people’s minds,” to “eight cognitive functions.”  Jung published Psychological Types in 1921, in German ( Psychologische Typen ), in which he proposed that humans differ by how they orient to the world (extraversion/introversion) and how they favor perceiving (observing) versus judging (allocating preferences). His original conception had just four “psychic functions” (thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition), each of which could be turned inward or outward. Over the decades, later thinkers unpacked that into what we now call “eight cognitive functions,” a more granular taxonomy built on Jung’s scaffolding. Because Jung wrote in German, his words are slippery. The German Empfinden (feeling/sensation) and Empfindung (sensation or feeling) blur in translation; Ansch...