There is no way he is an F type given the way he treated his wife, brutal!
I'm still not sure of his type. I read
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, which is a tediously complete account of his sex life and how it may have influenced his writing. I need to go and read a more well-rounded biography, since
The Secret Life focused on the sexual at the expense of all else.
The Secret Life also habitually refers to Oscar Wilde as "Oscar," which I found pretty grating.
Regardless, Oscar Wilde was definitely a literary and verbal genius. He grew up interacting regularly with some of the best conversationalists of the period, and was clearly a master of conversation and witticisms.
It's also clear that soon after he married (if not before), Wilde rejected the morality of his culture, and instead adopted a value system that venerated seeking out sex with men whenever possible (that of the underground gay "Uranian" society of his day). The Uranians held that homosexual love was higher and more spiritual than heterosexual love, if far more dangerous and fraught. In what became Wilde's value system, rejecting love (sexually) was the sin, and expressing it a virtue.
So, it's not clear to me how much of what looks like horrifically selfish behavior on Wilde's part is the result of the only alternative value system available, and how much are a testament to Wilde's ability to overlook and rationalize to himself the harm he did others, and to justify it as necessary collateral damage from pursuing a "spiritual" good. It does seem clear that he spent a lot of time seeking out sex with younger men, and justified his behavior in various ways.
At some points he repented of his actions, but never for long. It's clear he had a self-destructive streak that expressed itself in several areas (pursuit of sex, drinking, spending money and his disastrous libel suit). One wonders if some of his drinking and pursuits of sex were to avoid thinking on other matters. I suspect he felt torn between value systems, which would also explain some of his vacillations at various points.
So, in some ways his actions speak of a very selfish Fi, for example:
Secret Life loc1273 said:
The secret of this doctrine of desire lay in the abandonment of all self-control, a surrender to a mood of endless, eternal and shifting desire. The mystery of moods, he told Harry, was infinitely fascinating. 'To be a master of these moods is exquisite, to be mastered by them more exquisite still.'
His art was also mostly about expression or exploration of the self:
Secret Life loc1453 said:
Oscar always considered himself first and foremost a poet. [...] Poetry was the medium through which Oscar expressed his most powerful and profound thoughts and emotions, and most of his poems are intensely personal and intensely autobiographical.
It's also amazing how transparently autobiographical most of his plays are, as well.
So, I do think it's arguable that he's an ENTP, who adopted the Fe system of the available gay subculture of his day. However, I think it's at least as arguable he was an ENFP, given his emotional focus and his need to aggrandize his sexual pursuits as spiritual.
Secret Life loc6450 said:
Besides which, Oscar's love for Bosie was part of a wider Uranian Cause which saw itself as embattled and besieged by what George Ives called 'all the powers of evil and ignorance.' [They were...] warriors and lovers willing and prepared to embrace death rather than surrender. Oscar saw his trials and imprisonment not only as a necessary tortures, rites of purification on his revelatory ascent towards the summit of the high hill, but also as trials and tests by fire and water of his Uranian faith. He had lived his Uranian faith and now he was ready to die for it. 'To have altered my life,' he wrote to Robbie Ross three years later, 'would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble—more noble than other forms.'
And the above definitely sounds to me like a Feeling-based commitment to a cause.
As I said, I'm not 100% convinced what his type was, but I think it's an interesting topic. However, just arguing "he's witty because only ENTPs are witty" isn't by itself convincing (as people have done in other threads about Wilde). Also, mistreatment of others isn't confined to any single type, either. I do think his treatment of his wife was appalling... just not clear to me if it was done because of selfishness, commitment to another cause, self-delusion, survival instinct or some combination of all of the above.