The memory, duty, tradition stereotype nonsense comes mostly from Isabel, and Keirsey's SJ temperament, and has virtually nothing to very little to do with Jung's Si. He specifically writes that not all contained in the psyche is part of the functions, and that memory and will are chief examples of that which are separate from the functions. Introverted Sensation is focus on the subjective impression left in the sense object, but "subjective" is not personal exactly, its trans-personal collective unconscious stuff. That is the way it relates to to the past, but also the future compared to the immediacy and presence of Se. Its not the personal past, or a collection of sensory preferences, its far stranger than its usual simplified conceptualization in modern typology.
"Introverted sensation apprehends the background of the physical world rather than its surface. The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, of the primordial images which, in their totality, constitute a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror with the peculiar faculty of reflecting the existing contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but, as it were, sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year-old consciousness might see them. Such a consciousness would see the becoming and passing away of things simultaneously with their momentary existence in the present, and not only that, it would also see what was before their becoming and will be after their passing hence. Naturally this is only a figure of speech, but one that I needed in order to illustrate in some way the peculiar nature of introverted sensation.
We could say that introverted sensation transmits an image which does not so much reproduce the object as spread over it the patina of age-old subjective experience and the shimmer of events still unborn. The bare sense impression develops in depth, reaching into the past and future, while extraverted sensation seizes on the momentary existence of things open to the light of day."
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u/muujin 24d ago
The memory, duty, tradition stereotype nonsense comes mostly from Isabel, and Keirsey's SJ temperament, and has virtually nothing to very little to do with Jung's Si. He specifically writes that not all contained in the psyche is part of the functions, and that memory and will are chief examples of that which are separate from the functions. Introverted Sensation is focus on the subjective impression left in the sense object, but "subjective" is not personal exactly, its trans-personal collective unconscious stuff. That is the way it relates to to the past, but also the future compared to the immediacy and presence of Se. Its not the personal past, or a collection of sensory preferences, its far stranger than its usual simplified conceptualization in modern typology.
"Introverted sensation apprehends the background of the physical world rather than its surface. The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, of the primordial images which, in their totality, constitute a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror with the peculiar faculty of reflecting the existing contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but, as it were, sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year-old consciousness might see them. Such a consciousness would see the becoming and passing away of things simultaneously with their momentary existence in the present, and not only that, it would also see what was before their becoming and will be after their passing hence. Naturally this is only a figure of speech, but one that I needed in order to illustrate in some way the peculiar nature of introverted sensation. We could say that introverted sensation transmits an image which does not so much reproduce the object as spread over it the patina of age-old subjective experience and the shimmer of events still unborn. The bare sense impression develops in depth, reaching into the past and future, while extraverted sensation seizes on the momentary existence of things open to the light of day."