Professor Nobody Essay Entry

Socionics - A lecture on its fundamentals. By Professor Nobody. In layman’s terms, Socionics is a neo-Jungian system that is based on Carl Jung’s Psychological Types and on the Soviet Psychological Theory known as Information-Metabolism. Think of the brain as the digestive system in how it takes in information to gather nutrients from it. The brain digests these nutrients in different forms (the Information Metabolism Elements, which exist in eight forms, which they are digested in eight different methods). It was synthesized together in the late 1970s by the late Lithuanian Economist Aušra Augustina. The system would be named as Model A in her honour. Model A is composed of eight function categories with eight IMEs. There is also inspiration from Sigmund Freud with the mental iceberg, except that she added the Superid for the self-affirmation block (Suggestive + Mobilizing).

The Base (Bold + Valued + Ego).

The Creative (Cautious + Valued + Ego).

The Role (Bold + Devalued + Superego).

The PoLR/Brake (Cautious + Devalued + Superego).

The Suggestive (Cautious + Valued + Superid).

The Mobilizing (Bold + Valued + Superid).

The Ignoring/Control (Cautious + Devalued + Id).

The Demonstrative (Bold + Devalued + Id).

The Eight IMEs are as explained here:

Ti: Internal structure, static rules + principles based on pure logic, abstraction, hierarchy, theory, classification, analysis, order.

Te: Dynamic rules based on external metrics, cost/profit, factual information, practicality, usefulness, business logic.

Fi: Internal values, static distance between themselves and others in terms of emotional bonds, love/hatred, value-based principles, coldness.

Fe: Dynamic emotional moods, externally expressed sentiments, changing one’s value-based principles based on the changing group’s values.

Ni: Dynamic temporal intuition, the past and the future, shifts in time, evolution/involution, changes in one’s mental timeline, subjective perception of time and abstractions of such, shifting meaning, extrapolation.

Ne: Static potentials, external options, static meaning, the multiplicities/hypotheticals, static ideas.

Si: Dynamic soft sensation, subjective comfort, shifting environments, dynamic internal stability, subjective physical feelings, the subjectivity of how one feels comfort.

Se: Static hard sensation, applying static pressure in a changing time, sensational influence, volitional pressure, force, power, control of external environments.

To finish this off, the Socionics types are categorized into four Quadras based on function valuation. The Quadras are listed below:

Alpha: Ti/Fe, Ne/Si.

Beta: Ti/Fe, Se/Ni.

Gamma: Fi/Te, Se/Ni.

Delta: Fi/Te, Ne/Si.

Despite the four types being different in each Quadra, they all still share common values and ideals to their world-views because of how they all value the same elements.

Eventually, the theory evolved into more Socionics systems such as Model G (the model involving energy, which I will explain later), Socionics dichotomies (Central vs Peripheral, Process vs Result, Static vs Dynamic, Merry vs Serious, Decisive vs Judicious, etc).

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