Killjoy
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- Joined
- Oct 7, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
- Enneagram
- 5
Good, good, but reasons?
Well, Flaubert was an introvert, as well as a notorious perfectionist (which isn't inherent to just INTJs, I know), but he seemed driven to reaching some ideal perfection in his work, and his novels have a foreboding element to them, as if their inevitable conclusions had been predetermined.
Although he's often associated with naturalism, he had a bent toward romanticism and from his letters, it's apparent that he was a very conceptual person - I would say these hint toward INxJ.
The reason I go with INTJ, is because his prose is impersonal, pessimistic, and at times, employs a very caustic wit, and based on his hatred for the bourgeois (and almost any form of social Utilitarianism), as well as his convictions toward government and religious concerns, suggest Fi.
(not to mention his infatuation with prostitutes indicate inferior Se)
Rimbaud is difficult to type, because there seems to be three personalities for him. From accounts I've read of his personality, he appears to be a very caustic, cruel, charismatic yet unlikeable ENTP. Yet, he writes like an INFP. But, the older Rimbaud, who dismissed his poetry and became a merchant trading weapons in Ethiopia, seems like an IxTJ.
As for Hopkins, I want to say INFJ - Due to the fact he became a Jesuit and that there seems to be an abundance of emotion in his poetry.
I'll add one more: Flannery O'Connor - INTJ (I'm pretty certain of this one).