ISTJ 5w6 Characters

Freud is very stubborn in holding to his own personal point of view and theory, which is based on his own experiences and interpretation of things through the lens of sexuality. In his mind, everything goes back to that point and can be explained by that, from platonic relationships to man’s view of God and their erotic fantasies. He often sources myths, legends, and books in his discussion with Lewis, pulling from the many things he has read and finding it delightful to discuss literary, scientific, and theoretical material with another of a “decent mind.” But Freud is also locked into his own point of view, which is not entirely accepting of the outside reality. He sees his daughter as pure and innocent and young, because he wants her to be that way, and feels disturbed by her sexuality and lesbianism and unwilling to self-blame for it, so he lives in denial of it (he would have to self-blame if he accepted it, because his own writing suggested that a lesbian’s relationship with her father caused the “affliction” in the first place). This is why others look at him in disbelief when he argues that his daughter is much too young and naïve to know anything about sex, or enter into a sexual relationship with anyone. Freud is very rational in laying out his arguments and having them make sense, even if others do not agree with them. They can find him abrasive because of his directness and tendency to attack the main arguments and refute them point by point. He is also intolerant of any point of view that he does not agree with, and enjoys shredding it with a forceful verbal argument. His Fi is deeply affectionate toward his daughter (maybe inappropriately so, by the views of others, in that he has made her wholly codependent), but does not think about how others feel most of the time, or factor them into his discussions or debates. He isn’t affected by their arguments or their emotional approaches. Freud shows a vague interest in theories for their own sake, but often tries to weave them back into his over-arching sense of everything being rooted in the body, in the sensory sensual world in some way.

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Freud is esoteric. He doesn’t believe others are as smart as he is, and can prove it with his in-depth analysis, in which he considers any arguments to be fallible, easily torn apart, disproved, or foolish. He is not humble and does not care to come across that way, because his offerings to the world were wholly unique and unrepeatable. Others define their thinking and theories by his own standards, he does not bend to adopt theirs. He enjoys talking to Lewis as a similar intellect, but also scolds him for being sucked into “religion,” which in his mind is the enemy of true intelligence. He sometimes conducts straw man arguments, and tears them apart in preparation for Lewis to mount an argument (figuring out what the argument might be in advance, and addressing it to prove his intellect, which is 6ish).