Semantic component

Energy component

Psychological attitude - being inferior

One-dimensionality (f.4, 5)

Reliance on previous experience when trying to comprehend, evaluate, understand new experience, when searching for a new solution. 
Being unable to use an established norm, pattern or rule as a reference.
Knowledge of some norms combined with inability to use them (uncertainty whether the norms are understood correctly).
Use of norm substitutes.
Rejection of commonly accepted ideas.
Emphasizing of person's individual notions, opinions, understanding (use of the linguistic expressive means that serve to emphasize the individuality of one's perception).
Unconventionality (originality) of thinking - the thinking, does not go in line with the generally accepted ideas, ignoring them.
Inadequate decisions and actions (not respecting the social conventions).
Inadequate self-esteem.
Not being able to assess the situation.
An advise is perceived as a negative criticism or attack.
The amount of invested effort and energy is used as the criterion of quality asessment.
Suggestibility. Inability of critical evaluation of information. Influenceability
Fixation, desire to keep things unchanged.
Tendency to get stuck. Repetition over and over of habitual reactions, evaluations and decisions.
Desire to "cut off" a part of the world, to "shut ones eyes"; often it manifests as memories about failures being "erased" from the memory.

Normativity (f. 3, 6)

Necessity.
Compulsion.
Correctness.
Conformism.
Tendency to follow the general arrangements (conventionalism).
Inflexible adoption of axioms and rules as absolute values.
Using stamps, recurring patterns of thinking.
Generalizations of the kind: "anyone", "everyone", "for everyone", "always", "never" etc., which reflect the sense of a fixed, inflexible viewpoint.
Reliance on:
- proverbs and idioms, which reflect established views and beliefs;
- regulations, rules, laws,
- reference books,
- uniform education;
- generally respected sources of information;
- superstitions and customs.

Common indicators of low-dimensionality (f. 3,4,5,6)

A person is uncertain of the subject (related to the respective information element), in his understanding (pay attention to the marker expressions like: "it seems", "I am not sure", "I don't know", "I do not feel competent enough", "I am not an expert" etc.)
Not sure in self-assessment.
Reluctance to speak on a particular topic. Unwillingness to answer the question.
Few gradations. Perceptions of information without shades, fine details. Polarizations like: black/white, yes/no, righ/wrong; going into the extremes.
Has outlook of fatality, inevitability, helplessness.
A person has difficulties when asked to provide examples related to the IE.

 

High energy cost when acting or thinking in terms of a respective information element.
Uncertainty
Despair
Fear 
Shame
Feeling humiliated
Feeling powerless
Psychological pain
Mental tourment
Panic
Feeling of worthlessness
Guilt
Feeling offended
Self-pity
Urge to present excuses for own actions
Suffering
Disgust
Fear to look bad in the eyes of others
Painful expectation that bad experiences would come back.
Confusion when evaluating new situations.
Feverishness of thought and action
Haste in processing of unpleasant information.
Narrowing of the mental space (tunnel vision)
Blurred view of the situation
Feeling of the world turning upside down
Feeling of a heavy load on the heart
Emotional collapse
Feeling of being suspended
Perplexity
Stupor
Feeling of an insuperable obstacle
Heaviness
Feeling of an inner barrier
Avoidance: "Do not want to hear / know / see / feel", etc.
Procrastination 
Indignation
Resistence
Denial
Irritation

 

Semantic component

Energy component

Psychological attitude - being inferior

Direction: attraction

Suggestbility
Self-confident self-esteem.
Bravado (inadequate self-confidence).
Boasting.
Expectation of praise.
Expectation of a positive feedback.
Asking for positive confirmation.
Desire to demonstrate person's competence.
Getting stuck

 

 

Positive reaction to obtaining (or anticipation of obtention of) the expected:

Pleasure
Upliftedness
Inspiration
Lightness
Joyfullness
Good mood
This is mine!
Getting absorbed
I am very eager to hear / know / see / feel this etc.
Delight
Interest
Curiosity
Hope
Expectation
Desire.
Restlessness
Bursting with impatience: "I can't wait to get it".
I can do it!
Being proud of oneself

Negative reaction when not getting the desired things

The pain of failure to reach the desired
Desire to keep the achieved
Fear to loose the desired

see also: low-dimensional functions

Semantic component

Energy component

Psychological attitude - being equal or superior

Situativity - three-dimensionality (f. 2.7).

Avoiding rigid "correctness" of normative functions;
Going beyond normativity and taking in consideration the current situation.
Abundance of gradations, shades and details instead of the extreme polarities of fixed norms;
Flexibility and adaptability to each new situation (function 2); 2).
Confidence in one's own decisions, high self-esteem.
No dependecy on the positive feedback from the others.
Creativity, based on good knowledge of norms and the ability to move beyond them, to revise the view according to the situation (f.2). 

Four-dimensionality (f. 1, 8)

All indicators of situativity (see situativity).
High dynamics of perception
Taking in consideration temporal changes
The present moment is the reference point.

Positive:

Respect
Self-esteem
Approval
Pride
Confidence in oneself
Pleasure
Upliftedness
Inspiration
Pleasure
Lightness
Merryness
Joyfullness
Interest
Curiosity
Expectation
Desire
Anticipation
Balance
Spirit of enterprise
Liveliness
Sense of purpose
Energy
Independence
Thoroughness
Power
Stability
Security
Integrity
Sense of self-sufficiency

Negative:

Opinionatedness
Wrathfulness
Rage
Anger
Grumbling discontent
Snobbery
Scorn
Indignation
Aversion
Arrogance
Pride
Feeling of being unique
Haughtiness
Feeling of superiority

Semantic component

Energy component

Psychological attitude - being equal or superior

Rigidity (hard to change), automaticity of response programs (f.7)
Programs adaptated to different situations for individual life
Instant response aimed to fulfill appropriate vital needs.

Indifference
Nonchalance
Could't-care-less atitude
No-need-to-explain attitude
Irritation when urged to think in terms of the respective IE
Apparent confusion when forming thoughts (related to the IE)

Semantic component

Energy component

Conscious (deliberate) reactions: observation, paying attention, noticing, reasoning, thinking.
Asking questions in the process of reasoning.
The use of phrases in the speech: "I see", "I notice", "I can at the first glance", "it catches the eye".
Acting and thinking with reference to the society.
A person speaks not only about himself and on his own behalf, but about other persons in general, on behalf of many, can use the pronoun "we" instead of "me."
Creativity, which is the result of deliberation, reflection and rethinking.
Good memorizing (the Ego block).

Accordingly to the dimension of the respective function.

Semantic component

Energy component

Spontaneity, lack of control, automatism, the reccurent quality of responses.
Indicators of habit, routine, ordinariness.
Lack of desire to think and reason.
When there is a need to think over something - the problem gets transfered to the functions of the Ego.
Difficult verbalization.
The typical "recollection" of past experiences (instead of reflection, or reasoning).
Weak attention or awareness.
Can realize the fact after it has happened.
Self-focused selectivity of information (for individual needs). Can ignore the opinions of others.
Emphasizing of individual understanding and opinion reflected in use of phrases: "it you ask me...", "for me..", "this is just my opinion," etc.
The tendency to express a subjective point of view reflected in use of the phrases: "everyone can see it his own way" , "this is highly subjective," etc.
Indifference towards public opinion.

Experiencing it hard to plunge into the subject.
Feeling as if struggling your way through something thick and viscous.
Lulling effect (as if it is hard to think clearly)
Difficulty with focusing one's attention on the subject.
 

For more information see control emotions of ID and SUPERID

Semantic component

Energy component

The "Minus" sign

Function operates:
in terms of quality - both in the ​​positive and negative areas;
in terms odf scale - global, broad scale;
in terms of direction - is directed outward.

 

Accordingly to the dimension of the function and belonging to the mental/vital track.
Irritation or avoidance if necessary to go in details.

The "Plus" sign

Function operates:
in terms of quality - in the ​​positive area;
in terms of scale - in the local area, specific subject, goes in details;
in terms of direction - directed inward.

Limitation, restriction of competence area.
Cuts off all that goes beyond the competence area.
Disorientation in the negative area.
Avoiding the negative area.
Selects only the positive side.
Concretization, going into details.
Often uses examples instead of generalization.

When operating within the incompetence area (the "negative" area) experiences painful emotional reactions, sililar to those of low-dimensional functions (see low-dimensionality)