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Thoughts on the Babel Tower of Personality

Think of how languages develop, gradually losing mutual intelligibility. The same thing happens to typologies. Jung's initial book fractured into mainstream MBTI, Socionics, and dozens of smaller guru-led systems, each claiming the original inheritance while slowly diverging. Consider what "Ni-dominant" means across systems. In mainstream MBTI, the Ni-dom is often described as a single-minded visionary: strategic, purposeful, confident in their singular truth, ready to change the world. The archetype is the CEO with a ten-year plan. In Socionics, this is closer to Ni-creative, and the Ni-dom is something closer to Emily Dickinson's "I heard a fly buzz when I died..." more anticipating doom than engineering success (with leading Ni being quite a negativistic thing, overall). IEI drifts through life noticing beautiful atmospheric details; ILI critiques everyone's optimism from his chair. Partially, this is explained by the so-called "J-P" shift ...

Brief characterizations of Socionics types

Here's my attempt at reducing V. Talanov's list to a minimum (15 traits for each type), while keeping a balanced portrayal of types. As usual, remember that it is all subjective, so my views are not completely aligned with Talanov. Sources primarily are https://sociotoday.narod.ru and his VK page (summed up at https://talanov-works.carrd.co/). For some general mainstream socionic theory, see here , from Sedecology (not cited here,but useful). See also Type comparisons . Note that these comparison traits generally shouldn't be used to diagnose types in themselves, since they artificially inflate differences. Also, see Dual pair values , and even common Conflictor pair values . Also keep in mind that according to this "school", intermediate types exist. Try to imagine what a combination of two "mirrors" (e.g. ILE/LII) would look like. For a harder exercise, pick two "mirages" (ILE/IEI) or "extinguishers" (ILE/ILI). For an extra-hard as...

Victor Serge: ILE with an accent on EII

"The course is set on hope." "It is often said that 'the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning'. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs, a mass of other germs, and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?" "The author of Jean Christophe at 70 let himself be covered with blood, shed by a tyranny for which he was the faithful apologist. It was incomprehensible to me, demoralizing, and Jacques Mesnil could find only one response: “He is old” – he was old himself, J.M., alone and hurt, but of an absolute uprightness." — on Romain Rolland "In Serge's world... politics is composed not of statements but of persons... The sketches of Stalin’s per...

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