D.H. Lawrence MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is D.H. Lawrence? D.H. Lawrence is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - - 458 in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
I am the first person to vote INTJ for Lawrence, so I suppose it is fitting I also be the first person to comment on his profile. Lawrence, particularly in his essays, is direct, authoritative, arrogant, passionate. He does not play around with his words, but thrusts with them like an aggressive fencer. He also tends to make direct, clear, aphoristic assertions, one after the other. He is more interested in getting out his observations, his ideas, than in constructing an argument (as an INTP would do). This is not merely a persona: while by all means likeable and charismatic (he is repeatedly described as "fascinating", and the number of studies concerning Lawrence himself, rather than his writing, attest to this), he was reportedly just as opinionated, as passionate, as prone to irritation and quarrels with stupidity or ignorance on the part of others. Aldous Huxley (widely agreed to be an NFP) got to know him fairly well, and hearing his observations and confusions over Lawrence is enlightening here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okCQ7rdujEo&t=334s). Huxley notes that he was quarrelsome "on principle". He also says that Lawrence would go for long periods without writing at all, seemingly lazy or uninspired, and then suddenly "get the urge to write and write for 18 hours a day...it was a sort of possession." Also, very interesting, when writing he would never correct anything; if he was dissatisfied, he'd simply start over again. These are traits that I've seen again and again in INTJs, living and dead: the sudden manias of writing followed by lack of motivation (Marx, Sartre, Nietzsche), and the ability to spin things out of their head, all in one holistic line, from the beginning or not at all (Asimov). As for the content of his works, Lawrence denigrates the intellectual side of life in favor of the heart and the pure, inarticulate sensual (the "blood", or vitality, which strikes me as a very inferior/tertiary Se idea). He takes it for granted that the majority is wrong and endorses notions of superior vs. inferior species and men, which are very common ideas among INTJs, whether they admit it or not---it results from their dislike of Fe. That's what I've got.
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