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Originally Posted by Uberfuhrer
I dunno, sometimes I see the Melancholic temperament assigned to NF and Phlegmatic assigned to SJ.
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I don't know, I haven't seen that. I usually see Phlegmatic given to P's (usually SP's).
And that is one large problem. The four humours don't really cover the whole range of people easily, or at least not usefully, in a predictive nature. No one seems to fit very well into any of the four categories.
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Some sources consider Melancholic temperament to be the artistic and dreamy temperament, which I can more easily see fitting in with NF.
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Well, that was the problem. The Melancholy was given both artistic/depressive/moody behavior (INF) as WELL as anal meticulous behavior (ISJ). Already there's some confusion. The depression/moodiness seems to now be more reflective of ISFJ, where they get moody/depressed usually out of cynicism over their lives not being the way they wanted them to be, while still preserving the anal detailed elements. This is not really the "artistic temperament," which is much more ethereal, and the artist gets no other choice out of the four temperaments.
And the Choleric came off as the high strung leading type (ESJ? STJ? TJ?).
And the Sanguine was the athletic ESP? IS? type.
And the Phlegmatic was the P type.
Perhaps I just have not seen good descriptions of the humours. As you can tell, the ones I have seen were very abysmal and useless as far as differentiation goes.
Do you have any idea of what a decent variation would be on the humours?