Base and Creative Fe

Base Fe (“linear-assertive ethics”, extraverted ascending feeling) – Expressiveness

The ability to beautifully express one’s feelings, to synthesize an image of oneself that is subjectively attractive to an unrestrictedly broad circle of people.

For possessors of strong, inert, programmatic Fe, involvement in public life, non-indifference, as well as extreme hostility toward objectification of the descending kind are characteristic. By the latter we mean the detailed analysis of other people’s personalities and motivations, the deconstruction of the created integral emotional image, its reduction to the “bricks” of a materialist basis (physiology and random developmental errors).

A distinctive feature of base Fe, setting it apart from other ethical functions, is that its holders are more inspired by global social currents and upheavals than by specific people. Accordingly, possessors of base Fe also seek a partner not so much on the basis of their personal goals, sympathies and antipathies, considerations of the possibility of mutual support, etc., but rather by relying on certain general norms and values that they profess.

Creative Fe (“receptive-adaptive ethics”, introverted ascending feeling) – Impressiveness (from impressio – impression)

The ability to feel the mood diffused around oneself, to see the subjective value of everything around in terms of attractiveness/unattractiveness, and to imprint one’s vision in artistic images.

For possessors of strong, contact, creative Fe, there is a characteristic rejection of utility as any significantly meaningful criterion of their activity. Hence - difficulties with obtaining the means of subsistence, and hence, often, the search for patronage from society as a whole or from a specific partner who is willing to share what is necessary for life and does not force them to work “to exhaustion”.

Creative Fe differs from the other ethical functions by the frequent absence of a specific subject toward whom its possessor’s emotions are directed; and if such a subject does exist, by a frequent indifference to their real fate - despite emotional involvement in communication with them. The emotions of creative Fe usually exist in the form of a certain veil cast over reality - an abstract mood, joyful or sad, but not one that produces an immediate desire to do anything to support those around them.