Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
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Lady Julia wrote an entry about the Jung Typology Test. I figured I might waste a few minutes and see what it said about me.
Your Type is
INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
100 62 31 3
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
- very expressed introvert
- distinctively expressed intuitive personality
- moderately expressed feeling personality
- moderately expressed perceiving personality
I took this test a few years ago and it came out very different. ENTP (Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving) I think.
Looking at the INFP profile page:
Introverted Feeling
INFPs live primarily in a rich inner world of introverted Feeling. Being inward-turning, the natural attraction is away from world and toward essence and ideal.
Well if I didn’t have an inner life of goodish size this site would have much fewer words. But I don’t care for essences or ideals at all, preferring the individual and particular.
Extraverted iNtuition
Intuition spawns this type’s philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. … If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists.
I’m not half bad at pattern perception. Had I not “wasted” so much of my youth maybe I’d really have learned how to write.
Introverted Sensing
… a natural inclination toward absent-mindedness and other-worldliness, however, Feeling’s strong people awareness provides a balancing, mitigating effect.
I’m forgetful as Hell. Being mindful of others is the only thing that keeps me from being more so.
Extraverted Thinking
Nothing under that registered with me.
There’s also another page with some awful twaddle about “Healer Idealists.”
Comments
Do you really think this is silly? And… you don’t see anything under healer idealist that fits you? Put modesty aside…
I admit our friendship is still in the new stages, but you believe this doesn’t seem to really apply to you? “They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.” — “Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents.”
Feel free to edit this, delete it, reply in private, or not at all :)
Posted by: Lady Julia | December 19, 2006 3:01 PM
I do care passionately about special people in my life: but that is true of many people regardless of “personality type.”
Don’t really worry about that “unity” stuff.
That would be to oversimplify my childhood.
Posted by: Richard | December 19, 2006 3:33 PM