Yozo Oba MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Yozo Oba? Yozo Oba is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - so/sp - 459 in Enneagram, RLUAI in Big 5, IEI in Socionics.
Inf Fe would not be as good at social camouflage as aux Fe. INTPs in grips tend to /try/ and use Fe, but it comes out quite unnaturally and or even awkwardly. Using Fe is effortless for Yozo. He's an actor who plays his part very well. He can easily adapt to the social environment because he intuitively knows exactly what people want from him. His Ni-Fe vision is to be the ideal person for everyone. He wants everyone to like him so that they won't become the monsters that he thinks they are deep down. His obsessive desire for social harmony is such a core part of him that it's hard to believe anything but Fe aux/dom. Also, I find it a bit hard to believe that he's been in Fe grip for his entire life. Se grip is more likely because it happens when he's really at rock bottom (before his suicide attempts, after Yoshiko was violated, etc). He devolves into Se grip toward the end of the book as his mental state worsens. He overuses Ni-Fe to the point where he's created a distorted view of the world and of people and finds himself overwhelmed by it. Eventually, he stops caring. He gives in to escapism and sensory pleasures, namely morphine addiction and alcoholism. He's consumed by unhealthy Se behaviors by the end of the book. He uses Se to escape from his dread of people and from the harsh realities of life in general (ex. not being taken seriously when he talked to Flatfish about how he aspired to be an artist and thus learning how the real adult world works) *see comments*
Biography
Yozo Oba is the main protagonist and narrator of "No Longer Human." "I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast, I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric."
