Psychological Function (Di)

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Collective Primacy

The Unbroken Chain of Belonging.

Assimilation of Self into Whole / Communio

Collective Primacy

Patience, service, obedience, duty, subordination, self-denial, self-sacrifice, cohesion, unity, collectivism, conservative values, paternalism, people, state, army, church

Essence: collective belonging and deference.

The subordination of individual will to the group - its hierarchy, traditions, and continuity. Authority and consensus provide genuine orientation. Individual deviation is unsettling, belonging to something larger than oneself is experienced as right and necessary.

Manifests as deferential, collectively oriented, and tradition-bound behavior.

Extreme manifestations: blind obedience, self-erasure in the collective, suppression of dissent.


Collective Primacy with

Assimilation > tends to stick together with others, feels comfortable only within a group, pack, or hierarchy, where decisions are made for them and goals are set for them.

Vertical Collectivism > supports a single vertical power structure, strict social stratification, and censorship of information.

Introversion > submissiveness, patience, avoids speaking out (not wanting to disrupt agreement/subordination).

Judging > discipline.

Invariant Stability > indifference to one's own health, comfort, fashion sense, etc.

Differentiation > maintains a long psychological distance from people, not inclined to open up quickly.

Horizontal Individualism >

Extraversion > stress resistance.

Perceiving > indifferent to one's fate.

Contextual Lability > believes that safety is more important than truth, freedom, and independence.

Possibilities Intuiting > thinks of other members of the group first, then about oneself.

Power Sensing > joins the strongest in the group's war against external enemies, approves of usurpers (if someone managed to seize power, it means they are a good military leader).

Temporal Intuiting > potential readiness for self-elimination, suicide [analogous to the built-in mechanism of cellular apoptosis at the social level].

Comfort Sensing > mental sluggishness and slow thinking, tires of active thinking, wants to believe blindly in authority.

Structural Logic > ability to patiently follow an unchanging schedule; desire to preserve the social structure (where each new generation repeats what the previous one did), impose traditional values (man as warrior, woman as mother and keeper of the hearth).

Relational Ethics > ability to patiently educate someone; conformism - fears untested innovations, always follows generally accepted norms of behavior.

Business Logic > hardworking - likes to be loaded with the work assigned to them.

Emotive Ethics > herd instinct - always feels a sense of belonging to the collective and follows its majority.

Violation Reactivity > negative attitude towards any private initiative not controlled 'from above', fights against private initiative.

Social Plasticity > willingness to participate in any activity led 'from above', submitting to appointed leaders and performing dirty work, both physically and morally, that they would never undertake on their own initiative.


Collective Primacy without

Possibilities Intuiting > likes monotonous (totalitarian, barracks-like) order and strict discipline.

Power Sensing > has a voice of conscience that reproaches them for bad deeds.

Temporal Intuiting > a typical 'workhorse' feeling responsible for everything and everyone, on whom everyone relies.

Comfort Sensing > directs aggression towards themselves in case of failures and setbacks.

Structural Logic > anti-intellectualism, distrust of independently thinking people.

Relational Ethics > approves of harsh decisions by the authorities.

Business Logic > fatalism - disbelief in the ability to change anything; reverence for what the majority considers 'sacred'.

Emotive Ethics > seriousness - never jokes or fools around; does not cry, complain, or share their problems with others.

Violation Reactivity > able to endure hardships and unjust treatment for a long time without irritation or rebellion.

Social Plasticity > rarely tells others about their interests and does not care about what others are interested in - believes that everyone should pull their assigned load without trying to trade with someone else.

Individual Primacy > believes society has the right to suppress those whose personal interests conflict with the values of the majority.

Analysis based on correlation patterns and empirical data
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