would you say the projection thing also happens in 6 fixers or only cores?
Yes, but a lesser degree since a fix means it's not the main defense mechanisms. The core defense mechanisms will pop first and the most often, and the fix overlap to kinda hold or reinforce the primary mechanisms if they are failing or encountering too much resistance. They are like back ups to give more ways to avoid your core fears.
Example: let's say I am arguing or in disagreement with someone about something I believe myself knowledgeable and competent, and that I do really care about. Since something huge is at stake for me, then my 5w6 core primary mechanisms trigger =>
Detachment: to not be affected by potential wrongness, and just not show I care a lot to not feel vulnerable.
Repression: again, to not feel fear or any other emotion rising such as anger...
Rationalization: anything that didn't make sense will now make sense, I swear.
Wing 6 Lowkey projection: "The other is soOO fucking insistent GOD" but who is still arguing with the other? Me.
Wing 6 Lowkey Reactivity: Starting to get mad and becoming myself more heated, leveling up the tone, getting pointlessly overly involved in the argument. This is an unconscious attempt to become overwhelming for the other person and kinda make them back down just because what I am doing is just annoying.
And, of course, wing 6 Doubts: instilling doubts in them because I am doubting like crazy, but also I start doubting every single fucking thing. This is also some form of projection.
But then, the other person involved still continues, still have divergent argument, and somehow whatever I say is not taken into consideration or is starting to fall apart, rightly or wrongly. Then my 1 fix pop because: I am doubting myself af and feel insecure, my competency and certitude is at play. But in me, this feels like being pushed past my comfort zone and therefore past boundaries, so I feel not respected. It goes beyond my capacity to analyze and also to handle a different pov = AnGErrRR
Criticism: i am now pointing every flaw about the other person that could explain the flaws in their take. This helps me detach and avoid facing my own flaws.
Self-righteousness: I do feel I am standing on a higher ground and make them know I am being the Good one in this thing. This, again, allow me to not face any wrong in what I said or did so far.
Ultimately, formation reaction: this thingy happen to me when either I am proven wrong or I see that it is going no where and just feel so fucKInG Innerly threatened, because I can't analyze for shit and it's OVERWHELMING, I just switch my position radically and suddenly approve of whatever they were saying just to shut down the argument and preserve any little sense of being Good or Right in myself, and also to restore some fake sense of respect. On the moment, i do really think the other's point were good and true. But later on, i become MAD at myself because I STILL DISAGREE ABOUT THIS, THIS AND THAT YOU FUCKING DENSE FUCKER.
But then, even more repression :)) And no more fear or anger, just pure Thoughts. Then withdrawal to analyse wtf happened and integrate the information more properly. So I get back into my security realm, my fucking head.
Sometimes I rather detach before arguing and then isolate to ponder on my own, and simply dismiss the argument because it is too sensible for me to argue about it, and so more secure to stay in my head. But then I don't need much my 1 fix mechanisms to back me up, because my sense of Self (gut aspect) is not threatened.
So, the second fix also triggers if you get pushed beyond your core priority, like in my case, if my sense of self/boundary also get threatened then the 1 fix will counter because this will even more destroy my sense of security (head stake). A second 6 fix will trigger if the sense of security is at play, and usually it will mean the image (heart core) or self/boundary (gut core) has been attained badly.
The unhealthier you are, the more your ego perceive threats to your core and fixes, so the fixes will trigger quite easily, and so disintegrations.
So, any second fix will also get triggered in this fashion, but tbh it will be more fluid and the mechanisms will overlap more indiscriminately than how I portrayed it. And I haven't mentioned disintegration, but those can kinda happen in the mix. It would be more complex and fastidious to explain tbh since the "psyche" doesn't follow a set in stone pattern. Still, I think what i explained goes far beyond what was asked, but i couldn't help it :')
All that to say, any fix mechanisms will show up, but at a lesser degree because it requires the core to fail and that your ego is attained into the realm of the fix, not just the core. This is abstract tbh, so if you don't fully get it, it's normal. Just reread it another day and let things add up together on their own, this should do -w-
