MBTI and Four Temperaments correlations
Hi guys,
I worked out a system for correlating MBTI types with the Four Temperaments.
Each temperament combination can correlate to two MBTI types, always one Thinking and one Feeling.
Mel-Chol = INFJ or INTJ
Chol-Mel = ENFJ or ENTJ
Mel-Phleg = INFP or INTP
Phleg-Mel = ISFJ or ISTJ
Phleg-San = ISFP or ISTP
San-Phleg = ESFP or ESTP
Chol-San = ENFP or ENTP
San-Chol = ESFJ or ESTJ
I associated "EN" always with choleric, "ES" always with sanguine, "IS" always with phlegmatic, and "IN" always with melancholic. "N" is associated with cholerics and melancholics because these temperaments are drawn toward "intuition," which plays out rationally or poetically. "S" for sensing is associated with sanguines and phlegmatics as the two more light-hearted, less serious and less mind-oriented temperaments. Obviously, "E" belongs with cholerics and sanguines, the extroverted temperaments, and "I" for introverted with melancholics and phlegmatics.
A person is either "perceiving" (P) or "judging (J) on account of their secondary temperament. I associated "J" with cholerics and melancholics, as the judgmental/critical temperaments, and "P" with sanguines and phlegmatics, as the perceiving temperaments. Thus a melancholic-choleric, for example, will be "IN" on account of being melancholic, and "J" on account of being secondarily choleric. The "T" or "P" is up for grabs.
SO, I pretty much agree with whoever said that...
melancholics are IxxJ
cholerics are ExxJ
phlegmatics are IxxP
sanguines are ExxP
...because I believe that an IxxJ will always be either primarily or secondarily melancholic, a ExxJ will always be primarily or secondarily a choleric, and so on.