[Eranos]

The two are very different.

Jung identified four primary functions and two attitudes- Extraverted and Introverted Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, and Intuition generating his basic model of eight types around a mandala or circle (Jolande Jacobi 1941). He identified that each of us have all eight of these 'types' in us to a greater or lesser degree, and in a perfectly balanced theoretical psyche, the first fouir would lie primarly in consciousness and the latter four becomining increasingly unconscious.



Thus, for Jung, the top two couplets where extracted from his system to form the strongest type 'couplet' would consist of both dominant and auxiliary in the same attitude. Isabel's system generates the dominant in one attitude, and the auxiliary, as a functoin of the MBTI instrument, is projected onto the opposing attitude irrespective of whether it exists in the measure.

The two systems are therefopre very different, and a more representative view of typology should perhaps allow for 32 clear types, not just the top 16 of one or the other.

[kelar]

I do differentiate and I would like to know more about the jungian cognitive functions but all over the internet it's all mbti

[ChanceyRose]

Personally, I'm inclined to think all of it is mostly irrelevant for personal development. I've experienced much more growth by focusing on identifying what makes me psychologically uncomfortable and working to eradicate and/or balance that. For example, I am absolutely lost when I experience strong negative emotions. It's like being deaf, blind, and alone in a lightless cave. Is this because the MBTI identifies me as an INTJ or is it because I spent 19 years in an emotionally abusive relationship, repressing all emotion as much as possible? Some combination of the two? I use Ni and Te. At this point, I think I'm Te dom but was more likely Ni dom in my teens (before my marriage). Which is "correct?" Why the change? I don't think understanding my exact function order is nearly as important as understanding how to deal with these emotions in a healthy way.

That said, I do find more clarity in Jung's writing than in the more readily accessible, oft repeated, pillaged, and bastardized "MBTI" writing available on the 'net. I more inclined to trust a known source like Jung than the stuff on the various personality sites.