{"id":822,"date":"2023-08-15T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modestatestage.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:31:41","slug":"know-your-modal-disposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/befriendmytype.io\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/know-your-modal-disposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your Modal Disposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Know your Modal Disposition<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mode State Stage (MSS) model reflects psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung\u2019s four functions (Sharp 12) \u2013 feeling, intuition, sensing, and thinking \u2013 as quadrants of the circle (for this diagram, see <a href=\"https:\/\/modestatestage.com\/mode-state-stage-an-overview\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">modestatestage.com\/mode-state-stage-an-overview<\/a>) representing the whole of cognition and Jung's psychological functions \u2013 otherwise described as personality inclination and mindset. The model also incorporates Jung\u2019s two attitudes, introversion (subject- and inner-world inclination) and extroversion (object- and outer-world inclination). This means that the two attitudes, introversion and extroversion, apply for each mode, or function \u2013 for example, introverted feeling and extroverted feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Mode State Stage (MSS) model, the two attitudes and the four functions, or modes, are represented as the four quadrants of the circle of awareness and functioning, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Lower-right quadrant: Feeler (introverted and extroverted)<\/li>\n<li>Upper-right quadrant: Intuitive (introverted and extroverted)<\/li>\n<li>Lower-left quadrant: Sensate (introverted and extroverted)<\/li>\n<li>Upper-left quadrant: Thinker (introverted and extroverted).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above classification reflects Jung\u2019s eight types, based on combining the previously mentioned two attitudes and four functions.<br>To these primary modes are added the secondary modes, or functions, possible in each quadrant, for each mode. In the case of the example given, that is, for the feeling mode, the secondary mode could be either intuition or sensation (the two adjacent quadrants). The diagonal quadrant, in this case, thinking, is the least available, or conscious, mode. (Note that this applies for all of the quadrants, so that one\u2019s diagonal mode is one\u2019s least available, or conscious, mode.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The notation commonly used in Jungian 16-type personality typology models is used here as well. Hence, the four types with feeling as the dominant mode are introverted feeling-intuition (INF), introverted feeling-sensation (ISF), extroverted feeling-intuition (ENF), and extroverted feeling-sensation (ESF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To these three-letter codes are added the two fourth-letter possibilities (\u2019J\u2019 for \u2018Judging\u2019 and \u2018P\u2019 for \u2018Perceiving\u2019) as conceived by Myers and Briggs (Briggs Myers &amp; Myers 33). These were the terms that Jung used to characterize the functions feeling and thinking as judging, or evaluative, in nature, and intuiting and sensing as perceptive, or non-evaluative, in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to Isabel Briggs Myers (Briggs Myers &amp; Myers 42-43), for extroverts the primary function, or mode, determines their approach to the physical, or object, world, while for introverts, it is the secondary function, or mode, that determines how they interact with the outer, or object, world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Thus, the four Jungian types for each of the quadrants are as follows (Martin 10):<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Feeler \u2013 lower-right quadrant: INFP, ISFP, ENFJ, ESFJ<\/li>\n<li>Intuitive \u2013 upper-right quadrant: INFJ, INTJ, ENFP, ENTP<\/li>\n<li>Sensate \u2013 lower-left quadrant: ISFJ, ISTJ, ESFP, ESTP<\/li>\n<li>Thinker \u2013 upper-left quadrant: INTP, ISTP, ENTJ, ESTJ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who share a primary mode, represented by a shared quadrant of the mode-representative circle, are best positioned to form sustainable close relationships, both romantic and platonic \u2013 put another way, they mostly just \u2018get\u2019 one another. Thus, we could say that those who share our primary mode are those with whom we have primary compatibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We have secondary compatibility with those whose primary mode is in a quadrant adjacent to our primary mode, or quadrant, on the mode-representative circle. Their modes could be said to be complementary to ours, in that communication with them may not be as natural and easy as with those with whom we share a primary mode or quadrant, but communication \u2013 while sometimes challenging \u2013 is possible, especially when we are aware of our modal disposition. With the added awareness that complementarity is the basis of optimal individual and collective functioning, we are well positioned to people our lives mostly with those in our shared quadrants and complementary modes, and quadrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Communication with those in the quadrant diagonal to ours will typically be the most challenging (Pascal 41-43). Yet, communication with those whose mode, or quadrant, is diagonal to ours will be optimized with an awareness of our modal disposition. The potential for constructive communication will be amplified with specific acquired communication skills and the involvement, where and when necessary, of a person from one of our adjacent (or complementary) modes (or quadrants), acting as an intermediary, or \u2018personality-complementary intermediary\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that there are questions that have arisen about possible derivatives of the above groupings, or classifications, that might place one or more of the above types or modes in an adjacent quadrant. An example of this is the INTJ-Investigative (or scientist) and the INTJ-Artistic types \u2013 a combination of the Jungian 16-type classification (and notation) with the Holland (RAISEC) career classifications \u2013 with the INTJ-Investigative demonstrating thinking-mode dominance (upper-left quadrant) and the INTJ-Artistic demonstrating intuitive-mode dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The possible derivatives of the Jungian two-attitude, four-function (or \u2018modes\u2019 in the MSS model) resultant eight and sixteen modes\/types will be explored in future blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martin, C. R. 2001 <em>Looking at Type: The Fundamentals Using Psychological Type<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pascal, E. 1994 <em>Jung to Live by<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sharp, D. 1987 <em>Personality Type<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0All of the publications in the above 'References' list are available for purchase from the '<a href=\"https:\/\/modestatestage.com\/publications\">Publications<\/a>' page of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/modestatestage.com\/\">Mode State Stage<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know your Modal Disposition The Mode State Stage (MSS) model reflects psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung\u2019s four functions (Sharp 12) \u2013 feeling, intuition, sensing, and thinking \u2013 as quadrants of the circle (for this diagram, see modestatestage.com\/mode-state-stage-an-overview) representing the whole of cognition and Jung's psychological functions \u2013 otherwise described as personality inclination and mindset. 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