Sensing

This is an excerpt from van der Hoops "Conscious Orientation".

* Author refers to "Sensing" as "Instinct"
** Posting it in the SP Forum because the author describes how it manifests as a dominant function in ESXPs.


The life of the instinctive extravert is determined by impressions received from without, to which he reacts with his instinctual impulses. In children of this type it is possible to observe at a very early age that sensations are for them of particular significance, {28} and that they very quickly become at home in the world of facts and things. At the same time, they are strongly reactive. If an object catches their attention, they at once seize hold of it, or they go after it, and study it from all sides. They will, moreover, repeat this reaction again and again over a long period of time. Such a child needs to have a world of forms, colours and tones. He wants to sniff at every flower, and can with ...