INFJ 6w7 Characters

Lewis is concerned with abstract thinking in a way Freud is not; he sees a broader perspective and intuits a lot about his debate companion over the course of the conversation simply by being present, listening, and thinking about the vital flaws in that moral argument. His interests are all academic and abstract, and focused on what things and words and beliefs mean, rather than on tying them back to the sensory world or human sexuality. Most of what we see in him is his Fe/Ti. He allows Freud to ramble on at length without interruption, by making space for him and treating him with politeness despite their firm differences of opinion. Lewis only ‘attacks’ him on a sensitive point when he finds a logical fallacy in his thinking, and then uses it to encourage Freud to reconsider his own analysis. He points out the harm Freud may have done in making his daughter so codependent that she doesn’t have a life of her own, and questions his need to make everything about sex, but becomes uncomfortable when Freud probes him about his relationship with an older woman. Lewis strives to understand everything, and to reason it out through analysis, questions, and internal debate, but also winds up doing tasks he does not want to do, out of a Fe-ish sense of moral obligation (walking Freud’s dog, staying around with him because he feels guilty leaving him alone in pain, etc). Flash-backs to his time in the war show him being overwhelmed with sensory stimulus in the heat of battle, and not being able to react quickly.

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Lewis is an academic who likes to come up with rational arguments to support his religious beliefs, all of whom are based in the super-ego (a sense of what should/should not be done, unlike Freud). He comes prepared to dismantle arguments and discus things in depth, but spends as much time listening as he does debating, allowing his opposition time to explain all of his ideas in a way that Lewis can understand them and then pick them apart with astute observations. He also finds Freud’s pessimism difficult to stomach, because while some of his views are negative, Lewis is always striving for a certain degree of hopefulness. He wants to believe in the divine, in the goodness inside of humanity, in our ability to be redemptive, and he often looks for the humor in things that he finds amusing and uses banter to lighten the mood and seek camaraderie with Freud.