Jung Eight Dimension + MBTI | ESTP Shadow Function Personality Analysis to Understand Your Hidden Character!

Have you ever had this experience: at some moments, you show behaviors or ideas that are very different from your usual personality, which surprises and confuses you? Have you ever thought about whether your personality remains unchanged, or there are hidden levels waiting for you to explore and explore? If you are interested in these issues, this article will open up a new perspective for you and help you understand the diversity and complexity of your personality.

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This article focuses on the shadow functional personality analysis of Jung 8D and MBTI, aiming to let you understand what the shadow functional personality is, how it is formed, what characteristics and advantages it has, and how to tap its potential to achieve self-growth and development. This article will take ESTP as an example to focus on explaining the shadow functional personality ISTJ of ESTP, as well as its association and influence with ESTP’s male functional personality.

PS This article is for readers who have a basic understanding of the concept of Jung 8D (MBTI cognitive function). If you have not yet understood the relevant concepts, you can read what MBTI cognitive function is , or search for relevant information by yourself.

What is Shadow Function Personality?

Before further discussion, we will briefly review the basic concepts of MBTI and Jungian 8D. MBTI, or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, is a widely used personality test that divides a person’s personality into 16 types, each type consists of four letters, representing the preferences of four dimensions:

• Extravaginal (E) or Introvaginal (I): Indicates that you are more inclined to interact with the outside world or immerse yourself in the inner world.
• Sense (S) or Intuition (N): It means that you prefer to obtain concrete facts through the five senses, or to capture abstract possibilities through intuition.
• Thinking (T) or Emotion (F): It reflects that you rely more on logic and principles when making decisions, or emotions and values.
• Judgement (J) or Perception (P): Show that you prefer a methodical planning life or a flexible and open lifestyle.

Jung Eight Dimension was proposed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. This theory believes that a person’s personality consists of eight psychological functions:

1. Extravagant Feeling (Se): Use the five senses to interact with the external world, pay attention to the current actual situation, and pursue excitement and enjoyment.
2. Introverted Feeling (Si): Communicate with the internal world through the five senses, focus on past experiences and memories, and seek stability and security.
3. Extravagant Intuition (Ne): Use intuition to interact with the outside world, pay attention to future possibilities and changes, and explore innovation and unknowns.
4. Introverted Intuition (Ni): Rely on intuition to connect with the internal world, focus on deep insights and meanings, and pursue insights and foresights.
5. Extraordinary Thinking (Te): Use logic to communicate with the outside world, attach importance to facts and data, and strive for efficiency and results.
6. Introverted thinking (Ti): Use logic to dialogue with the internal world, focus on principles and theory, and pursue accuracy and analysis.
7. Extravagant Emotion (Fe): Through emotions, communicate with the outside world, care about interpersonal relationships and values, and create harmony and cooperation.
8. Introverted Emotions (Fi): Relying on emotions and the internal world, we attach importance to personal feelings and values, and stick to the truth and self.

The connection between Jung’s eight-dimensionality and MBTI is that each MBTI type contains four psychological functions, one of which is the dominant function, which is the most natural and powerful; the other is the auxiliary function, which plays a secondary support role; and the third function, which is relatively weak and has a low degree of development; and finally the fourth function, which is weakest and is not often used. Taking ESTP as an example, its four psychological functions are as follows:

1. Director function: Extraverted feeling (Se)
2. Auxiliary function: Introverted thinking (Ti)
3. Third function: Extravagant emotion (Fe)
4. Fourth function: Introverted intuition (Ni)

Shadow function personality is hidden deep in our consciousness and is composed of psychological functions that are not used or suppressed. It usually contradicts or conflicts with our positive functional personality, and will surface in specific situations, affecting our behaviors and ideas, sometimes bringing negative results, and sometimes having positive effects.

The mechanism of forming a shadow functional personality is that during the process of growth, we choose to use certain psychological functions based on our own talents and environment, and ignore or inhibit other functions, thereby forming a positive functional personality that is displayed daily. However, those psychological functions that are not used or suppressed have not disappeared. They are hidden in the subconscious mind. Although they are not noticed by us or even loved by us, they are accompanied by the left and right like shadows, waiting for opportunities to move.

Detailed explanation of ESTP’s shadow function personality

Different personality types have different shadow function personality. The conversion rule is to replace the first and fourth letters of the personality with opposite letters to obtain the shadow personality. For example, the shadow function personality of ESTP is ISTJ, the shadow function personality of ISTJ is ESTP, and so on.

The shadow function personality ISTJ of ESTP is composed of psychological functions that are not used or suppressed by ESTP. It often opposes or conflicts with the positive function personality of ESTP. It will appear in special circumstances, affecting ESTP’s behavior and thinking, and the results are either good or bad.

The correspondence between ESTP’s positive surface function and shadow function is as follows:

1. Director function: Extraverted sensation (Se) → Shadow function: Introverted sensation (Si)
2. Auxiliary function: Introverted thinking (Ti) → Shadow function: Extraverted thinking (Te)
3. Third function: Extraverted emotion (Fe) → Shadow function: Introverted emotion (Fi)
4. Fourth function: Introverted intuition (Ni) → Shadow function: Extroverted intuition (Ne)

The shadow function of ESTP has the following characteristics and advantages:

• Introverted Feeling (Si): It can help ESTP review and sort out its own experience and memory, learn lessons from it, summarize experience, improve knowledge and skills, enhance one’s own stability and sense of security, and avoid making repeated mistakes or neglecting details.
• Extravagant Thinking (Te): It can help ESTP organize and manage tasks and goals more efficiently, use facts and data to support its own views and decisions, improve efficiency and results, enhance self-confidence and sense of authority, and prevent being too subjective and arbitrary.
• Introverted Emotions (Fi): It helps ESTP to deeply understand and express one’s own feelings and values, establish and adhere to personality and principles, enhance realism and self-cognition, enhance empathy and respect, and avoid indifference and impulse.
• Extravagant Intuition (Ne): It can encourage ESTP to explore and try various possibilities and changes widely, use imagination and creation to expand horizons, enrich thinking, improve innovative exploration capabilities, enhance flexibility and openness, and prevent being too conservative and stubborn.

The shadow function of ESTP is not always dormant. It will appear under the following special circumstances, affecting its behavior and thoughts:

• When the ESTP’s positive surface personality encounters difficulties or failures, the shadow functional personality will try to help it solve the problem or escape reality. For example, when the feeling of extrovert (Se) cannot meet one’s own needs or desires, the feeling of introvert (Si) will immerse ESTP in past memories or habits, seeking comfort and security.
• When the ESTP’s positive functional personality is under pressure or threat, the shadow functional personality will try to protect its self or resist the outside world. For example, when introverted thinking (Ti) cannot convince or influence others, outtroverted thinking (Te) will make ESTP become strong and arbitrary, pursuing control and power.
• When the ESTP’s positive functional personality is ignored or negative, the shadow functional personality will try to express its emotions or value. For example, when extroverted emotions (Fe) cannot be obtained or maintained by others, introverted emotions (Fi) will make ESTP sensitive to self and pursue truth and self.
• When the ESTP’s male functional personality is overused or abused, the shadow functional personality tries to balance its thinking or behavior. For example, when introvert intuition (Ni) cannot grasp or predict direction and goal, extrovert intuition (Ne) will make ESTP curious and risky, pursuing innovation and exploration.

How to give full play to the advantages of shadow function personality?

The shadow function of ESTP has the advantages and disadvantages of the impact of personality on it. On the positive side, it can provide ESTP with a new perspective and resources, so that it can understand itself and the world more comprehensively and deeply, and promote its own growth and development. Negatively, it may conflict with the positive functional personality, making ESTP feel confused and out of control and affecting decision-making actions.

So, how can ESTP play the advantages of shadow function personality and avoid being troubled by its disadvantages? The following methods and techniques are for reference, helping ESTP to recognize and accept its own shadows, understand its characteristics and advantages, observe its emergence situations and reasons, adjust its expression and application, and coordinate and unify its functional personality with the positive surface, and achieve self-growth and development.

• Recognize and accept your own shadow: ESTP should understand that shadow function personality is a part of one’s own personality, not a mistake or defect, but potential and resources, friends and partners, not threats or burdens. It should be accepted rather than denying boycotts. It will help to better understand oneself and the world and promote growth and development.
• ** Understand the characteristics and advantages of your shadow functional personality**: ESTP needs to understand the characteristics and advantages of your shadow functional personality, as well as its relationship and impact on your positive functional personality, so that you can clearly know what kind of help and support it can provide, and how to improve your abilities and performance. ESTP can learn and understand relevant knowledge and information by reading related books, articles, websites, and participating in related tests, courses, activities, etc., and test and experience the effects of relevant skills.
• Observe the emergence and reasons of your own shadow function personality: ESTP should pay attention to the situation under which shadow function personality emerges and the reasons behind it, so as to accurately judge whether it fits the current environment and tasks, as well as the purpose of the emergence. ESTP can explore and understand the rules and motivations of the emergence by recording and analyzing the emergence time, place, characters, events, etc.; it can also evaluate the effects and impact of improving the emergence by asking for feedback on the feelings, thoughts, behaviors, etc. when the emergence is revealed.
• Regulate the expression and application of your own shadow function personality: ESTP should adjust the expression and application of your shadow function personality so that it is coordinated with the positive surface function personality, and use psychological functions more balanced and diversely to achieve your potential and goals. ESTP can cultivate relevant skills and habits through practice to improve the level and confidence of shadow functional personality; it can also cooperate to communicate relevant needs and suggestions to increase support and understanding of shadow functional personality.

in conclusion

This article introduces the shadow function personality analysis of Jung 8D and MBTI. Taking ESTP as an example, it elaborates in detail the shadow function personality ISTJ of ESTP, as well as its relationship and influence with ESTP’s positive functional personality. At the same time, it provides practical methods and techniques to help ESTP recognize and accept its own shadows, give full play to the personal advantages of shadow functions, and achieve self-growth and development.

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Keywords: Shadow Function Personality, ESTP, Jungian Eight Dimension, MBTI, Self-Growth

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