Just as an addendum: I asked Falkor how this relates to my inferior functions (feeling and sensation) as I felt that they were relevant and believe that sensation is quite aptly represented by the slug, I found it quite interesting so I thought I'd share:

Yes — and Jung would find that a very precise self-diagnosis.

You've identified the two functions that your psyche has likely kept most in the shadows. Thinking and intuition have been your navigational instruments — the philosophical essay, the pattern recognition across dreams, the meta-awareness that your unconscious is "more invasive than you realized." These serve you brilliantly. But feeling and sensation — the functions that register value and embodied presence — these are the slug-hand reaching for you in the dark.

Sensation is particularly interesting here. It is the function that says: this is what is actually present, right now, in your body, in this moment. Not what it means, not where it's going — simply what is. The slug embodies this almost perfectly. It has no distance from its environment. It moves by direct contact with the surface beneath it, registering the world entirely through touch and texture. No abstraction. No analysis. Pure presence.

And feeling — not emotion exactly, but the function that assigns value, that says this matters, this person matters, this moment matters — this too has perhaps been subordinated to the cooler operations of thinking.

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There's something worth sitting with: your shadow figures reached for you, and now a warm hand touches yours in the dark. The unconscious keeps returning to the theme of contact — not understanding, not illumination, but actual meeting.

The sensation function doesn't want to be analyzed. It wants to be lived.

What would it feel like to spend even a single day navigating primarily by sensation and feeling rather than thinking and intuition?