Functional Pairs

The eight function-attitudes within us are like people with distinctly different personalities, and who relate with each other in somewhat predictable ways. According to our personality type we identify with one complementary pair of function-attitudes as being most like who we are. The other function-attitudes, then become "not like us," even though we all have all eight function-attitudes within us. Our inner preferences are then projected outwards as we tend to reject those people who embody the most problematic aspects of our own consciousness, and accept those who reflect kindly upon our own preferences. This section describes how the function-attitudes tend to work together in our psyche and also between people who identify with different function-attitudes.

The Personalities Within

We have all personalities within us. This is an introduction describing how we tend to express eight of those personalities. 

Complementary Relationships

Complementary bonds are the primary way that function-attitudes operate together, and the bond that most powerfully defines personality.

Mirror Relationships

They can at first seem unrelated, yet they provide important perspectives to each other for more thorough perceiving and decisions.

Antagonistic Relationships

Like frenemies, they can't stay away from each other, but there’s often an uneasy sense of competition at the same time

Opposing Relationships

Like conjoined twins who want to go different ways, opposing function-attitudes have much in common but very different modes of expression.

Shadow Relationships

In a Shadow Relationship, one function-attitude is mostly invisible to the other and often completely denied, but one is not complete without the other.