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If Inside Out’s emotions were Jung’s cognitive functions used in MBTI, what would they be?
For those unfamiliar with them, Jung’s cognitive functions (used in the MBTI) are: thinking, feeling, intuition and sensing. Each of them can be either extroverted or introverted. Let’s try to associate each one of them with the characters.
Anger is motivated by order, and gets irritated when something isn’t as it should or doesn’t turn out the way it should, which makes it pretty similar to the thinking cognitive functions. Extroverted thinking would be triggered by external disorder while introverted thinking by internal disorder.
Fear is constantly imagining what could go wrong and how, kinda similar to the functions of extroverted and introverted intuition, albeit he leans way more towards negative possibilities.
Disgust reacts instinctively and spontaneously to people and stuff, somewhat similar to the feeling functions.
Joy is motivated by pleasure and by the satisfaction that comes from sensory stimuli, very much like the extroverted sensing. Introverted feeling probably would result in a Joy oriented to memories rather than the outside world.
The extraversion-introversion dimension could very well be the emotions’ tendency to either turn attention to the screen or to the islands of…