Rhaegar Targaryen MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Rhaegar Targaryen? Rhaegar Targaryen is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 451 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, IEI in Socionics.
the justification for Rhaegar not being Ni-dom that i've been reading on this page is very weak so i'm just gonna pick some excerpts from Gifts Differing (official source for original MBTI) and Psychological Types (work that gave rise to cognitive functions): |Ni types per Gifts Differing| - "are driven by inner vision" = Rhaegar and his obsession with how the prophecy fit into his visualization, for more than 15 years - "are determined to the point of stubbornness" = one day, in his childhood, Rhaegar read in a scroll that he should become a warrior - because by the symbolic way he saw the tragedy of Summerhall, he was Azor Ahai, the Promised Prince. no matter how unrealistic this vision might sound to ordinary eyes, to the object, to the tangible reality (Se), he was just sure he was some kind of Messiah, and so reading this in the scroll was enough for him to become one of the greatest knights of the Seven Kingdoms. and there wasn't a single ordinary eye in the whole continent that didn't look at Rhaegar with admiration because of this persistence (except maybe for Robert, blinded for his passion). even Tywin Lannister spoke of him as an ideal King, the arrogant Jaime admired him, the bitter Cersei idolized him, Ned Stark, the one from whom Rhaegar stole the sister, commented that the Prince was said to be someone admirable by other people and he didn't understand what made him kidnap her... and looking at Rhaegar's whole story it is naive to assume that he destroyed everything he's built for a love built in just two days... no, if you believe that, either you just watched Game of Thrones which isn't the topic here (Books section) or you misinterpreted a good amount of things. - "are intensely individualistic" = yes he's individualistic when it's concerning to his vision. i don't think anyone disagrees with this, but some are implying it is Fi lol - every Introvert is individualistic to some point that's just their nature. the only difference is that some Fi types are strongly empathetic and self-sacrificing. - "are willing to concede that the impossible takes a little longer - but not much", "are motivated by inspiration" = well, that's basically Rhaegar's philosophy. he was trying with all his might to fulfill a prophecy! is there anything more future-oriented than this? he felt responsible for the future of Westeros and the world, and was emotionally involved in it. also, the fact that he's not Fi-dom is what explains him using contextually non-ethical or non-moral ways to complete the prophecy. he didn't care, after all the dominant intuitive types are not moral-inclined. Jung's excerpt now: "The moral problem comes into being when the intuitive tries to relate himself to his vision - when he is no longer satisfied with mere perception and its aesthetic shaping and estimation, but confronts the question: What does this mean for me and for the world? What emerges from this vision in the way of a duty or task, either for me or for the world? The pure intuitive who represses judgment or possesses it only under the spell of perception never meets this question fundamentally, since his only problem is the How of perception. He, therefore, finds the moral problem unintelligible, even absurd, and as far as possible forbids his thoughts to dwell upon the disconcerting vision" - "are gifted, at their best, with a fine insight into the deeper meanings of things and with a great deal of drive" = i understand those who didn't interpret him well like Robert, or this member who commented ISTJ here below. it's natural that Ni's interpretation is more contradictory and paradoxical on a superficial level, after all, it's more so a visualization. it doesn't need to be congruent - intuition is aesthetic as much as sensation. another Jung's excerpt who's literally Rhaegar: "The peculiar nature of introverted intuition, when given the priority, also produces a peculiar type of man, viz. the mystical dreamer and seer on the one hand, or the fantastical crank and artist on the other. The latter might be regarded as the normal case since there is a general tendency of this type to confine himself to the perceptive character of intuition. As a rule, the intuitive stops at perception; perception is his principal problem, and — in the case of a productive artist — the shaping of perception. But the crank contents himself with the intuition by which he himself is shaped and determined. Intensification of intuition naturally often results in an extraordinary aloofness of the individual from tangible reality; he may even become a complete enigma to his own immediate circle. If an artist, reveals extraordinary, remote things in his art, which in iridescent profusion embrace both the significant and the banal, the lovely and the grotesque, the whimsical and the sublime. If not an artist, he is frequently an unappreciated genius, a great man who "gone wrong", a sort of wise simpleton, a figure for 'psychological' novels".
Biography
Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was the crown prince of the Seven Kingdoms. He was the eldest son of the King Aerys Targeryen (The Mad King) and Queen Rhaella, and the older brother of Daenerys and Viserys. Although Prince Rhaegar was a skillful knight, he was also known as intellectual, musician, and believer of the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy. Prince Rhaegar initially married Ellia Martell of Dorne, but he eventuall fell in love with Lyanna Stark of Winterfell and kidnapped her. His actions caused a civil war in Westeros, and ultimately brought an end to the Targaryen dynasty.
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