"The Introverted Feeling Type"
IF (Fi)
Introduction
The introverted feeling type (IF) appears calm, unapproachable, reserved and often cold from the outside. This makes them inaccessible and difficult to understand. This image often gives rise to the prejudice that he has no feelings - but this is completely wrong. His feelings manifest themselves with intensity in the depths. His true motives and feelings are difficult to recognize. The outward appearance generally appears harmonious and unobtrusive and conveys an aura of appealing calm and sympathy; often the introverted feeling type hides behind a childish or banal mask and tends towards a melancholic temperament. However, his true nature is not nearly as innocent and mild as many other internet sources try to portray it. When he does show his own feelings to the outside world, they tend to be negative in nature, with a tendency towards emotional judgment directed at those around him. This way of feeling is extremely subjective and therefore predominantly devalues external objects. Its aim is not to adapt to external circumstances or the "object", but to subordinate them to its subjective emotional ideas in order to realize a certain subconscious image; it is constantly searching for an emotional image that has no existence in objective reality. This is why the introverted feeling type focuses its gaze on all objects that do not fit into its image, while criticizing and negatively judging them, whether silently or not.
For the introverted feeling type, their feelings are equivalent to big, significant ideas and have their own undisputed truth factor. For them, what they feel in relation to an issue is equivalent to the truth and cannot be influenced from the outside. This is just as true for his own feelings and judgments that he associates with people as it is for his own emotional values and preferences. If he suspects something "negative" in another person purely on the basis of his feelings, even if there is no objective evidence for this, then it often happens that this person is either condemned or punished with a cold indifference or with a hasty prejudice. This is just as likely to be the opposite when their inner self speaks to them with positive feelings about a situation - in this case it is perceived as the right thing to do and therefore also as a clear truth. This can be particularly problematic if an intellectual approach would be advantageous in certain situations, as all facts and information have to be carefully compared in a neutral way, which is difficult for the introverted feeling type due to their emotivistic approach. Contrary to many expectations of the introverted feeling type, or Fi, his feelings can be extremely self-centered and unsympathetic in nature, as this type of feeling is predominantly self-directed or ego-related. The consequences of this are sentimental self-love, wanting to make oneself interesting and self-admiration. The more egocentric the nature of this type, the more negatively its shadow will manifest.
The Shadow Side
The introverted feeling type can be described as a negative, primitive manifestation of the extraverted thinking type (ET), as it suppresses all those aspects into the deepest level of the subconsciousness. Its primitive manifestation of thinking is expressed through boundless concretism and dependence on facts - information and facts must be as precise as possible, with the most detailed explanations: Ultimately, however, feeling frees itself from thinking and creates for itself a freedom of action whose subjectivity nullifies the complexity of information by simply discarding all "excess" information in order to arrive at a subjective judgment. He also finds it very difficult to communicate in analytical manner.
In abnormal cases of this type, if the subjective intense feelings are too closely identified with one's own ego, this may produce a person who exercises excessive tyranny over his surroundings; the mysterious power of these intense feelings is transformed into a banal and immoderate desire to dominate others, vanity and arbitrary bossiness. Unscrupulous ambitions and malicious actions may also enter the picture. Even if this is not the normal state of the introverted feeling type, traces of it appear again and again in the form of a dominating influence that is difficult to describe - it is felt as an oppressive feeling that lies in the room like a spell. Nevertheless, the introverted feeling type has a constant willingness to coexist peacefully and harmoniously with others - usually as a form of neutrality that shields itself from its own environment.