1s excel at making the chaos of the unconscious into something structured and clear which people can understand, and then use as a framework to better their lives.
8s are the opposite of 1s. 8s excel at tearing down structure and/or escaping structure in order to plunge themselves into the unknown. The reason 8s become fixated on Lust where they struggle to feel like anything is ever enough, is because they are missing the Competency-based ability to create and form structure. All of the insight that 8s gain from their adventures and their fearless exploration of the chaotic underworld, end up wasted and meaningless, because the 8 cannot order any of it into a structure that makes any of it concrete and meaningful and lasting. The adventurousness and chaoticness of the 8 is even stronger in 7: the integration point of 1. Perhaps so many 1s envy 8s and mistype as 8s because theyāre actually envying 7s, and it is a real bitch to tell 7s and 8s apart if you donāt understand typology deeply.
Unlike 8, 1 already has the ability and the motivation to create order and structure ā itās what they do. What fucks up the 1 is the emotional inability to stomach the ambiguity and chaos of life. Many 1s live chaotic lives, full of sex and drugs and parties. But what makes them 1s is that psychologically, they cannot handle the ambiguity of other people, the ambiguity of the human condition and human belief systems, the ambiguity of the psyche, the ambiguity of anything, without feeling ANGER and FRUSTRATION and a wealth of other intense emotions. The struggle for 1s is learning to get in touch with their shameful emotions of anger and frustration ā and deeper down, their shame and sense of inadequacy. 1s feel they are somehow too inadequate inside to handle a chaotic lifeās challenges, regardless of how untrue this is.
all the 1s I know have the āshamanisticā trait of 4. They are seeking to find what kind of person you really are ā they envision the best, most perfect version of you, the way they envision the perfect version of themselves ā and then try to help you to embody this version of yourself. 1 and 4 suffer from a problem where they can become too emotionally attached to abstract ideals about who everyone really is, including themselves. For example, the 1 might think you are a pianist deep down and become offended when this isnāt who you actually are deep down. This problem of idealizing people in hyper-specific, detailed archetypal ways originates from 4, and 1 inherits it from their disintegration line.
1s become fucked up when they refuse to embrace ambiguity, chaos, expansive thinking and subjectivity, each represented by one or both of their lines (1 -> 4) (1 -> 7). The belief systems and structures they form in attempt to seek meaning and give others meaning, turn out to be meaningless and reductive. 1s reduce reality to the five senses ā the opposite of their original goal, which was to give mankind true meaning that allows him to expand his consciousness, 1 -> 7 ā because they are filled with rage and anger and shame when forced to confront a more complex reality. Iām too tired to whip it out now but Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung (he is a 1, btw!) has some excellent quotes which explain this phenomena, of religion becoming reductive and meaningless because the pastors (who are probably also 1s) are too scared to explore the chaotic and ambiguous unconscious full of fantasies.
1s are known for establishing and running religious institutions, because it is the calling of the 1 to provide meaning to other peopleās lives.
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