Elizabeth ''Effy'' Stonem MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Elizabeth ''Effy'' Stonem? Elizabeth ''Effy'' Stonem is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sx/sp - 458 in Enneagram, RLUEN in Big 5, IEI in Socionics.
I love how the entire point of her character in the majority of the show is that of a mentally ill person over indulging in drugs, intercourse and alcohol in order to AVOID her feelings, yet people use these facts as evidence for Fi dom and Se aux? That’s idiotic! We know that these feelings take the form of images (perhaps even that of a primal nature: archetypes) on the subject level. Effy says: “Their faces, behind the skin, between this world and the next. Their teeth and their claws are coming out, trying to break through. *To Freddy*: Here (*the heart*), a hole that fits mine. From the moment I saw you, I knew you’d be the closest I’d get to being…close. I didn’t know what to do with that feeling…happiness. But they know now! And they’re hungry, really f**ing hungry. Because, for as long as I know, they’ve been chasing me. And now they’re ready, now they’re strong enough to break through. And I can’t fight them. I used to be able to, when I was strong, but…You’ve made me weak.”. Her feelings have been abstracted into mental representations of some sort of entities, she does not view them as feelings, but as actual monsters/creatures/demons. Using the functions, these creatures can only be described as a vision of her unconscious - because that’s necessarily where products of ourselves, which we are unaware of, exist. In Effy’s case, she is unaware of her feelings due to them being repressed and pushed "down" into her unconscious - where monsters have been conjured through Introverted Intuition and represent her repressed feelings, in the community, this is referred to as “Ni-Fi”. But In actuality, I think that Jung would probably just refer to this vision as Introverted Intuition (Ni), because he does state that Ni is a function which perceives the processes lying in the unconscious, which does include these feelings. She obviously avoids dealing with her feelings by running away from her demons, which she has done her entire life (suggesting a devaluation of Fi)! She spends most of the series trying to not be close to Freddy (which, as she admitted, “knew” that he had the piece which would allow her to be as close to a person as she could be, from the first time they met). Her decision to not engage in a serious relationship with Freddy also suggests the importance of Ni in her decisions, as her “hunch” that he was “the one” was taken very seriously and served as an impetus for many of her questionable choices. And eventually, after much deliberation, when she does try to "listen" to her feelings and forms a serious relationship with Freddy - after trying to avoid that by hooking up with Cook and basically trying to destroy Freddie’s affection, make him hate her by any means necessary - she goes straight down the path to “the end” because, in her mind, the feelings for him made her weak and unable to keep the monsters at bay. All of this is indicative of someone who refuses to acknowledge their feelings, obviously, and does so by the overindulgence of, mostly, sensory experiences and drugs (which I guess would be more hallucinatory). If we read Jung’s definitions, then we can immediately deduce that this behaviour is likely linked to inferior Se... “The Introverted Intuitive's chief repression falls upon the sensation of the object. His unconscious is characterized by this fact. For we find in his unconscious a compensatory Extraverted Sensation function of an archaic character. The unconscious personality may, therefore, best be described as an Extraverted Sensation-Type of a rather low and primitive order. Impulsiveness and unrestraint are the characters of this sensation, combined with an extraordinary dependence upon the sense impression. This latter quality is a compensation to the thin upper air of the conscious attitude, giving it a certain weight, so that complete 'sublimation' is prevented. But if, through a forced exaggeration of the conscious attitude, a complete subordination to the inner perception should develop, the unconscious becomes an opposition, giving rise to compulsive sensations whose excessive dependence upon the object is in frank conflict with the conscious attitude. The form of neurosis is a compulsion-neurosis, exhibiting symptoms that are partly hypochondriacal manifestations, partly hypersensibility of the sense organs and partly compulsive ties to definite persons or other objects.” - Jung, Psychological Types “The inferior function is practically identical with the dark side of the human personality.” - Jung, The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales. Yet somehow she is being typed as an Fi dom with aux Se? Please give me one example of a good usage of any of these functions in the ENTIRE show, because that’s the point of dominant and auxiliary functions, we’re supposed to be able to depend on them more than any other function. Yet the only times we can acknowledge her behaviour as functional, is when she uses Ni and Te…HOW DOES THAT INFER INFERIOR TE?
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