Reply To: Self-Improvement & Sense of Purpose. Do you Need it? How does it Work for You?

[Anonymous]

@animal,
When I first learned about cognitive functions, that is what I perceived/theorized right away with how it actually works in the psyche: as you say, that "it's a kind of circular process." @auburn mentions it too in his book as an oscillation and tension between cognitive functions that create the awareness of consciousness in our psyche. That is why as a community we should keep in mind the categorizations that essentially come from the process of oscillation/circulation of cognitive polarities that work as a "whole" in our psyche. By categorizations, I mean the increasing refinement of J v. P, then Ji, Je, Pi, Pe, then judgement/percetion axis, and then each cognitive function. We should be careful to state whether we are making arguments for Pe leads, Pe in a type's hierarchy, a Pe "specific person/subject" or for Pe as a function only. Since the oscillation/circulation of a function in an actual person's psyche can vary to a significant extent even in a person with the same type and with same development because of the influence of the other functions' oscillations.