Stratievskaya in English

1.  Leading Fi The EII attempts to create the most harmonious, most humane, in his opinion, form of ethical relations, which would exclude the suppression of one personality by another, conflicts, discord, lack of understanding, and mutual distrust. “Poor peace is better than a good quarrel” – this is the basic form of his ethical strategy. EII’s entire life consists of a search for means and possibilities to realize his idealistic system of relations; moreover, his own behavior usually serves as a positive example of it. The outcome of such an orientation is heightened introspection and self-analysis, self-critical approach, and constant ethical self-improvement that is characteristic of people of this type. While he is highly demanding of himself, the EII is unusually very tolerant of weaknesses of other people. The commandment “Do not do unto others what you wouldn’t wish for yourself” EII takes with exceptional seriousness: he in principle doesn’t wish to hurt or upset anyone e...

1.  Leading Si Representatives of this type are characterized by shielding themselves off from unpleasant experiences and perceptions. To leave and join a pleasant society, a comfortable solitude, or a “warm company” that allows for light, non-obliging, non-binding relations; to depart into memories that vividly and accurately recreate pleasant impressions, once experienced and remembered for a long time. (“As now I remember the smell of freshly cut grass of the football field, on which I walked for the first time in my life…”) SLIs are endowed with an exceptional memory for perceptions and experiences. They readily describe their personal impressions of what they have heard, seen, and lived through, recreating their experiences of colors, sounds, smells, and tastes. (In movies of Andrey Tarkovsky, SLI, the recollection of sound is used as a kind of “sensory symbolism”, that is, the relayed experiences carry specific thematic significance.) The SLI also knows how to observe that wh...