INFJ 9w1 Characters

Unhealthy INFJs can be detached from this mortal plain and preoccupied with “higher thoughts.” Anna is a highly abstract thinker, who often answers Lib’s questions with metaphorical answers; she says she doesn’t need food, since she is sustained on “manna from heaven” (her mother is feeding her like a bird). She’s also obsessed with her brother burning in hell, and feels responsible for saving him, by killing herself in the process—she cares so much about his soul that she cares nothing for her own physical body in the process. But when Lib gives her the idea that she could abdicate one body and life for another one and be “reborn” to start again, so that she might live, Anna immediately understands what she means and chooses to become “Nan.” She lets Anna die, so that Nan can live, and goes on to have a full life. IFJs can run the risk of becoming too dependent on what others think and feel about them, for their own good—so desperate to please others, they neglect their own needs. This is, tragically, what has happened to Anna; she has internalized all of her mother’s toxic, hateful messages about herself (that what happened to her is her fault, that she is responsible for her brother’s death, that she has to atone) and believed them. But she is also open to Lib’s influence, and that allows them to save her life. Her reasoning makes sense to her, even if it’s senseless in Lib’s eyes – that she must pray and fast for as long as it takes to spring her brother from hell. She ignores anything that doesn’t fit into this narrative, by rejecting the idea that fasting means only skipping one meal, not all of them.

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Anna is an obvious attachment type, who wants to please others and abdicates herself in the process. She is even apathetic about her own survival if it means doing what her mother wants from her, which is to atone for her “sin” (her brother’s sins, more like). She has all but given up when Lib finds her, embracing her fate cheerfully and believing that it is for a lovely higher purpose, that she is devoting her life to a noble cause. Some of this self-abandonment is coming from her 1 wing, which demands that she do the “right” thing, that she not tell lies, but also not expose the truth, and not disappoint her family. She is willing to die rather than to allow her brother’s soul to languish in hell; even though she admits that she passed judgment on him, saying that he died because of the bad things he did.