Intellectualization MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Intellectualization? Intellectualization is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - so/sp - 513 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
“you need to FEEL your feelings!” - my INFP friend to me
Biography
Defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves emotionally removing one's self from a stressful event. When a person is attached emotionally to an issue, they may be tempted to consider it in intellectual terms. This often involves standing back from the situation and attempting to take a cold, neutral view of it. For instance, a person who has been made redundant after twenty years of service to a company may intellectualise it, acknowledging the management’s view that redundancies needed to be made for the company to survive. However, this defense mechanism of intellectualisation would not necessarily prevent the person’s passionate feeling that they have been betrayed after committing to work for the company for so long.
