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I am wondering if this is Ni. I have discussed in other threads, for example, how I've learned to make my Ni work for me as I've grown older, by using it productively to distance myself from my Fi ego and remove myself from the "in the moment" wallowing that I can do with Se (this is going on now, it will always be going on! woe is me!) ...and saying, hmm, this is maybe another reason why this person did that, or this situation occurred...actually asking "why?" and considering different perspectives, which ironically causes my Fi to mature, though I have to distance from Fi ego for this to work to my best interest.
I know that's Ni. I think it's also Ni that I have the neuroses I have (according to Jung's original diagnostic tool) about issues such as anxiety, or personal paranoia that people are ganging up on me, or other things.
BUT...what about this. I take in Se details of a thing. Say an RV camper. It's just a camper. I see a little girl standing in front of it, and it triggers a memory of me being a little girl, and suddenly I realize this RV is probably an early 1980's model, though I never even contemplated it before that moment, or took in this information by looking at the registration or blue book, just by the Se parts of what the camper looks like, and the added little girl making me think of my own early childhood.
I also do this with houses, like I'm pretty adept at guessing the architecture year for similar reasons. And it feels like just "knowing" ...it's weird. It's more like a "feeling" I get than collecting facts.
I know that's Ni. I think it's also Ni that I have the neuroses I have (according to Jung's original diagnostic tool) about issues such as anxiety, or personal paranoia that people are ganging up on me, or other things.
BUT...what about this. I take in Se details of a thing. Say an RV camper. It's just a camper. I see a little girl standing in front of it, and it triggers a memory of me being a little girl, and suddenly I realize this RV is probably an early 1980's model, though I never even contemplated it before that moment, or took in this information by looking at the registration or blue book, just by the Se parts of what the camper looks like, and the added little girl making me think of my own early childhood.
I also do this with houses, like I'm pretty adept at guessing the architecture year for similar reasons. And it feels like just "knowing" ...it's weird. It's more like a "feeling" I get than collecting facts.