Stepan "Stiva" Oblonsky MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Stepan "Stiva" Oblonsky? Stepan "Stiva" Oblonsky is an ESFJ personality type in MBTI, 7w6 - so/sp - 739 in Enneagram, in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.
Oblonsky is very obviously Fe dominant. Objective feeling makes it so that the subject's internal standard is made up of the external standard: the general notions of the outside world are the notions that the Fe user takes in and makes their own. Secondary Ti takes those external notions, analyzes and sorts through them logically, and “decides” which ideas should become apart of the subject. Rather than attempting to make the outside world more like his inner self, Oblonsky attempts to make his inner self more like the outside world. “In spite of his having no particular interest in science, or art, or politics, he was firmly guided in all these subjects by the views that most people and the newspaper held; he only changed them whenever most people did, or rather, he did not change them–they imperceptibly changed within him of their own accord.” This is an obvious example of how Fe-Ti works, the outside world guiding all of Oblonsky's inner ideas. That section also states, “Oblonsky never selected either his opinions or his point of view; opinions and points of view slipped into him automatically.” One of the reasons Oblonsky was so popular among his colleagues and friends is because he had “a total indifference to the business he was engaged in, because of which he never got excited or made mistakes.” This is an example of how strong objective feeling can cause one to become so detached from themselves that the object (being the outside world) ends up making very little impression on the subject. This is why many Fe users allow themselves to become indifferent on things that others have strong opinions on. And as the reader comes to learn in the first few pages of the book, Oblonsky was having and affair that he tried his hardest to hide from his family. As an unhealthy Fe user would, he didn't feel particularly sorry or upset when his wife found out, but instead felt anxious that this would ruin the perfect harmony he had always lived in with his family. It states that he “only regretted that he hadn’t been able to conceal things for her better,” rather than regretting having the affair in the first place.
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