INTJ and more

INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

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There is further explanation about how every types has its supportive characters which are mostly different from its main type that is often applied on certain circumstances. The detail can be found here. While I will copy my type explanation here for my own convenience, it is always free for you to use them :p. To make it short, within every INTJ personality, there is an unconscious INTP and visa-versa. This is true of every type; there is secondary pattern, a twin who is the mirror image of the primary pattern. There is also mask/second type which sometimes noticed by community and usually used in public purposes, in my case it is ST type (see the chart below, T and S are placed in extraverted face). By middle or later age, additional psychological growth may have produced new patterns that are the mirror image of the two primary faces. An INTJ is not only developing an inner NiFi, but also an outer NeFe. Thus, she begins to actually talk the walk and walk the talk. The fourth face, though largely hidden from the outer world, has risen to be more within the conscious awareness and thereby affecting more of the INTJs' conscious behavior. As this fourth face (SiTi) garners more influence, the INTJ may crave a higher degree of inner simplicity and rational order; i.e. a simpler, more orderly, less complex life. Perhaps these changes, overlaying additional faces or new archetypes arising, accounts for the mellowness that seems to frequently come with moving into our senior years.

When we talk about Type, we are actually talking about something that is hidden beneath the collection of traits and behaviors we think about when using the term personality. A person's "Type" may be something we can infer from traits and behaviors, yet we cannot directly observe it. If we examine the root of the word personality ("persona") we discover it means "mask." So the origin of the term suggests the early philosopher-psychologists believed the real self was hidden beneath the mask of personality.

When we observe in others consistent patterns of behavior, we are seeing, not type itself, but the influence of what I call the Faces of Type. The Faces are pair patterns of Judging and Perceiving mental functions (ST, SF, NT & NF). There is a unique combination associated with each type. Each of the 16 types has two primary Type Faces (derived from the fact that each of us responds to both E and I energy sources): a more public outer-energized face and a more private inner-energized one.

While these faces hide the true type, they are not masks in the sense of being false because they are a part of the overall Gestalt of type. They are extrapolations of our type. While our Myers-Briggs Type is a lifelong constant, the Type Faces are the building blocks of a maturing and developing personality.

Personality Type Faces and Archetypes
Jungian analyst John Giannini (Compass of the Soul:Archetypical Guides to a Fuller Life, 2004) believes the four primary pairings of judging and perceiving mental functions (ST, SF, NF, and NT) represent the fundamental Jungian archetypes of the Briggs & Myers' model. These 4 basic archetypes can be expanded to 16 by having them be expressed in either the E or I attitude and by which of the two functions in the pair takes the lead (is the principle function). For example, when ST is introverted it plays out somewhat differently than when it is extraverted; likewise when the coupling is reversed in order with Thinking predominant (TS) we get two more variations on the general theme of the pairing of Sensing-Thinking.

While these four primary archetypes are imprinted in the psyche of everyone, the unique patterns of the 16 types will favor expression of these these four primary archetypes in an order characteristic to each type. I chose to call these archetypical expressions "Faces" because I think the average person is more familiar with the notion of people having more than one "face" than they are with the more sophisticated and mystical sounding word "archetype." 

How are the particular patterns of Personality Type Faces determined?
Our 2 primary faces are anchored by our two most preferred mental functions, indicated by the middle two type letters. One anchors the extraverted face, the other the introverted face. The remaining two mental functions are aligned in a complimentary and supporting role to more fully define the two primary faces. So each Face has both a judging and a perceiving function. 

 

For purposes of example, because her public persona illustrates well, let's assume that Hillary Clinton is a real life INTJ. I suspect few will doubt Ms. Clinton's progressive idealism (author of "It Takes a Village" to raise a child). Early in her introduction to the public at large (in President Clinton's first campaign) we saw her on national TV warmly and supportively "stand by her man" during the questioning about Bill's Jennifer Flowers exploits. And we have also seen her other face - tough, pragmatic, competitive, and reality focused. Her detractors will accuse her of trotting out a particular face depending upon her audience and that she is the consummate politician enthusiastically going whichever way is most expedient for her political ambitions. But I see both natures as genuine parts of the whole. It explains her more temperate response to the Iraq quagmire. While her inner idealist nature is as anti-war as some of the Bush administration's most strident critics, her other nature is a practical realist: the mistake was made, we are there now between a rock and a hard place, with no easy way out.There can be tension between these two natures. When they are well accommodated, you get the kind of behavior we usually associate with INTJs. When they aren't you can get vacillation - which earns the pejorative "two faced" label. Another accommodation that can be a bi-product of healthy growth is when one of the two faces dominates: producing someone who acts quite a lot like an NF type or an ST type.

In looking at the above diagrams one can see that some personality pattern show a mental preference as extraverted while others show it as introverted, their patterns are the flip-flop of one another. In fact hidden within every INTJ personality is an unconscious INTP and visa-versa. This is true of every type; there is secondary pattern, a twin who is the mirror image of the primary pattern.

The Mirror Image Faces (or Shadow functions)
By middle or later age, additional psychological growth may have produced new patterns that are the mirror image of the two primary faces. The "I" face has an "E" reflection and the "E" face has an "I" reflection - as illustrated in the INTJ Chart below. [Beebe refers to these four mirror image functions as the "Shadow."] An INTJ is not only developing an inner NiFi, but also an outer NeFe. Thus, she begins to actually talk the walk and walk the talk. The fourth face, though largely hidden from the outer world, has risen to be more within the conscious awareness and thereby affecting more of the INTJs' conscious behavior. As this fourth face (SiTi) garners more influence, the INTJ may crave a higher degree of inner simplicity and rational order; i.e. a simpler, more orderly, less complex life. Perhaps these changes, overlaying additional faces or new archetypes arising, accounts for the mellowness that seems to frequently come with moving into our senior years.

How can I use an understanding of Personality Type Face Patterns?

Be able to resolve apparent Personality Type Paradoxes. As adults move into and through middle age, personality growth frequently occurs. Since the theory of type is that it is constant and lifelong, these personality growth changes are reflected in the Faces. Different patterns come to the forefront and have more influence. This increasing emphasis of formerly more subtle patterns can produce "traits" and "behavior" in people that seem at odds with what the conventional type descriptions suggest. So by learning the unique "patterns" or "faces" associated with each Type, we can better understand or predict the nature of behavior changes that increasing maturity may bring.
Be guided away from Personality Type Stereotyping. Since the Face patterns include all four mental functions (with their 8 expressions), it helps us "see" more of the whole person and avoid the stereotyping we sometimes fall into . . . i.e. talking about Thinking preference people as if they have no developed Feeling side to their personality or implying Sensing preference people lack Intuition by expressing "wonder" when they demonstrate creativity.

Better Understand Mid-life Changes. The maturing Faces can also be the prime-mover behind mid-life stresses and changes people undergo, as in the cases of people driven to explore new careers and life styles. Without judging whether such changes are helpful or not, the dynamics of the Faces model will better trace instances when the roots of these "new" impulses lead back to a person's core type. This context "normalizes" the impulses for change, allowing them to be weighed and contemplated in a more evenhanded manner.

Growing Outside the Box. For some people becoming aware of type is a path towards rediscovery of the core of their self. Life circumstances may have knocked them far off their personal course so the rediscovery and reorienting becomes a personally fulfilling journey. In contrast, there are others who find the idea of being placed in one of the 16 type boxes confining. They like the idea of working outside their box. And there is some evidence to suggest that increasing maturity brings a greater desire to make such changes.The Faces model provides a pattern or road map for such development, illustrating how a person's non-preferred functions can be developed in a holistic manner.

Expand our Communication Bridges with Other Types. The maturing Faces also expand our ability to communicate with people whose type differs significantly from our own. Some people instinctively learn to use these different faces when working with people they recognize as being of an essentially different type. A consummate politician, who can connect with a broad range of people, knows when to put on which face. This is like a multi-lingual person who easily switches languages to match the person with whom he is conversing.

While many of us have the latent talent to "talk" or "listen" a different type language, we have yet to develop it for one reason or another. Using the Faces model helps demonstrate that these latent talents exist, providing both a road map and an incentive to reach across the barriers between people of markedly different types.

Charting the Patterns of Myers-Briggs Personality Type Faces
The following tables may help readers unfamiliar with the hierarchy of mental functions determine their own Type Face patterns. Lower case "e" refers to an Extraverted Orientation; lower case "i" indicates an Introverted Orientation of the mental function.

Consult the following table to determine the hierarchy of the four functions for a particular type.

Hierarchy or Order of Preference

Myers Briggs type	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
ENFP	Ne	Fi	Te	Si	Ni	Fe	Ti	Se
INFJ	Ni	Fe	Ti	Se	Ne	Fi	Te	Si
ESTP	Se	Ti	Fe	Ni	Si	Te	Fi	Ne
ISTJ	Si	Te	Fi	Ne	Se	Ti	Fe	Ni
ENTJ	Te	Ni	Se	Fi	Ti	Ne	Si	Fe
INTP	Ti	Ne	Si	Fe	Te	Ni	Se	Fi
ESFJ	Fe	Si	Ne	Ti	Fi	Se	Ni	Te
ISFP	Fi	Se	Ni	Te	Fe	Si	Ne	Ti
ENTP	Ne	Ti	Fe	Si	Ni	Te	Fi	Se
INTJ	Ni	Te	Fi	Se	Ne	Ti	Fe	Si
ESFP	Se	Fi	Te	Ni	Si	Fe	Ti	Ne
ISFJ	Si	Fe	Ti	Ne	Se	Fi	Te	Ni
ESTJ	Te	Si	Ne	Fi	Ti	Se	Ni	Fe
ISTP	Ti	Se	Ni	Fe	Te	Si	Ne	Fi
ENFJ	Fe	Ni	Se	Ti	Fi	Ne	Si	Te
INFP	Fi	Ne	Si	Te	Fe	Ni	Se	Ti

Some educators use the a numbering system and the term "hierarchy" to refer the arrangement of the functions with respect to one another. This sometimes implies a normal developmental sequence or an ordering of mastery of the functions - which is a conclusion that early proponents of the 8 Function model, like Beebe and Grant, would not agree is the case. To avoid this leap of logic, it may be more instructive to visualize the functions in their attitudes arranged in a circle, like a clock or a compass. What is #1 in the "hierarchy" should be placed due North; its opposite, #8 in the hierarchy, should be placed due south. #2 in the hierarchy can be placed at the Northeast point; its opposite, #7 in the hierarchy, would be placed at the Southwest point. #3 could be placed Northeast and its opposite - #6 placed Southwest. #4 and #5 would be placed East and West respectively.

The top half of the compass would represent the more conscious mental functions; the bottom the more unconscious functions. Those on the East-West axis are in the gray area: semi-conscious. Most buried in the unconscious is the mental function lying in the 8th position. 

Source: http://www.personalitypathways.com/faces.html#typefaces