Author: Aushra Augusta
Symbols for IMEs
Half-phase numbering
A block for the organism’s self-realization among other organisms. Psychosomatic demonstrative block. A means of exploring the external world and demonstrating the organism’s capabilities. During the realization of this block the individual strives to be an example for others. There is a need to be noticed and noted for “good,” exemplary behavior. The block of aspirations, desires, and strivings.
Every Id is distinguished by a certain “good sense”. This is because it usually looks for the optimal way out of the current predicament instead of speculating about all kinds of things that could be done under various conditions and in various situations. The Id looks for the one road it is able to take right now. Therefore everything the Id chooses is realistic. It is always something that can actually be done, and through which the individual can demonstrate their talents and skills. […]
On the one hand, in the manifestation of the Id a lot is habitual, imitative, or even acquired through imprinting. But, on the other hand, it is the Id that “breaks the dams” when the mechanism of IM cannot function as a single whole because of the two rings receiving stimulating signals unevenly, i.e. when the active ring is better provided with the orienting signals than the passive ring. […]
Under these conditions of tension and discomfort, it is the Id that tries to break away from the old when the old becomes unbearable. The conditions become unbearable for the Id specifically, even though in reality it is a result of otherwise unsolvable contradictions that the entire mechanism of IM, and the passive ring in particular, got caught in. […]
When the mechanism of IM is trapped in hopelessness, the Id seeks an impulsive, narrowly-straightforward way out. It can sweep everything out of its path. If there are no available paths, the individual’s health “cannot withstand” it. This is also a breakthrough – the weakest link has burst, and the whole organism and system of IM get a break. […]
When there is a cooperating dual, the Id does not look for an exit to create a breakthrough, but rather chooses a direction. This direction is dictated by one’s own and the dual’s individuality, and more specifically by the needs of the individual’s psychological balance.
Just as the Ego is a tool in the hands of the socially balanced Superego, the Id is a tool in the hands of the physically balanced Superid. It is the Id that demonstrates an inclination to “right the ship” and “breakthrough”. If this breakthrough is independent, lacking suffient reference points, or having poor reference points, other people may percieve it as demonstrative or asocial behavior. […]
If the individual (depending on their type) decides to break away from their old lifestyle, social circle, job, etc., it is always the Id. The forms of life activity that “survive” are the ones that correspond to the aspects of this block’s elements. […]
In their daily life people use the Id’s impulsiveness in all uncertain, unforeseen situations to which it is impossible to apply norms. For example, the Id gets activated in order to leave a nice evening at a friends’ house where the pleasant atmosphere “sucks you in”. This is why, when the same situation “sucks them in”, different motivations emerge in the consciousnesses of different types of IM: one realizes they have a lot left to do at home, another feels awkward, the third feels the need to manifest their activity in some way. […]
People often use their Id as a last resort and a weapon. This is because in extreme situations it shows exceptional craftiness.
On this block people do not invent anything new, but only choose from the list of proposed options the one that seems acceptable from the perspective of the accumulated vital energy.
The Id does not need to be taken care of. It only needs help in avoiding possible mistakes, and to be provided with the necessary information. The information that arrives to the Id programs the organism’s activity. However, the program is not adopted blindly, it is adapted to the organism’s real needs and capabilities, to what it feels on the inside.
Ignoring (3/2)
Сontradistinction of the social to the individual, submission to the social and its will. Reception of society’s goals that are personally acceptable.
On [3/2] the individual completely submits to the will of their environment, and first of all their dual.
3/2 … is an implementation of the will and desires of others, and particular caution in satisfying one’s own needs. People try to satisfy those needs without attracting anyone’s attention, without anyone’s help. This is a half-phase through which people help others, but the external help on which can be used only in exceptional cases.
3/2 needs to avoid attracting attention and inviting ridicule.
On the 3/2 half-phase people submit to the will of their “programmers,” but they choose these programmers themselves, and only use their program until it starts to clearly contradict their interests.
Each personality type measures their social “capital investment”, i.e. what they have given to society through giving to other people, by their expenses on the 3/2 half-phase.
Demonstrative (4/2)
A means to achieve goals by changing the real situation, influencing the vitality of others.
On the [4/2] the individual tries to shine, to necessarily earn praise, to attract attention with their purely physical endurance. […] After all, this is the half-phase where the individual’s vital energy is used.
Every person gladly demonstrates the second element of their Id block. For the LSE [demonstrative Se] this is quality of objects, for the IEE [demonstrative Fe] – emotions, for the EIE [demonstrative Ne] – talents, for the SEI [demonstrative Fi] – relationships with people.
Classic Socionics 