Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel) MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel)? Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel) is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 7w6 - sx/so - 729 in Enneagram, SLUAI in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.
Now: here me out. When I say she's a social 6w7 with a 629 tritype, I mean it in the Riso Hudson sense, not the Naranjo sense. When we talk about instincts in Riso Hudson, it's not something that colors your whole personality: it's also something that relies on your core fears as a type as a whole AND in the instinctual realm. As a 6w7, she fears a lack of security: now, she doesn't look like this on the outside, going on wild adventures with The Joker and later Poison Ivy, but she fears a lack of security in the social realm. She fears a lack of support from pears, she fears being abandoned by the people she cares about most, she's afraid of being seen as lesser in her social group (in this case, villains). Now, you may argue Harley is actually a 4 fixer, but in my opinion, she isn't; despite her unique presentation, she longs to care for and take care of other people, which is an aspect of both healthy and unhealthy twos. She also has the 9 aspect (as well as the sexual aspect, though it's her play zone) of easily losing her identity in other people; in that way, it'd make sense for Harley to have two types in the attachment triad (aka the one that most frequently loses their identities in other people) in her tritype. She's actually one of the better examples of a 629 tritype, as not all 629 tritypes are like Cinderella in that they're perfectly submissive for other people, even if Cinderella did have a reason. Harley, as a core 6w7, is sassy and fun like a core 6w7, and her fun has a 2ish flavor. She may appear 4ish because of her unique presentation, but you have to remember: the "harlequin" identity is something she made up to mirror the Joker. Only in later appearances of Harley, such as in the comics universe proper, does she actually start thinking, dressing, and acting for herself and basically stops dressing like she's meant to be the Clown Prince of Crime's Clown Princess. Love her arc, btw. She's one of my favorite abuse survivors and BPD coded characters in fiction.
Biography
A psychiatrist who encountered The Joker in Arkham Asylum. She became enamored with her patient, eventually aligning herself with him as his assistant - if anyone could classify as "the SECOND most deranged nut-job in Gotham", it's this woman. People believe Harley is weak without the Joker. SHE ISN'T.
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