Geppetto MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Geppetto? Geppetto is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 2w1 - so/sx - 296 in Enneagram, SCOAI in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.
[My usual disclaimer: My typing method incorporates concepts from the Cognitive Type system. While CT is Jungian-derived, it does not share a 1-to-1 relationship with standard Jungian systems.] Both Geppetto and Pinocchio currently have an ENFP majority on PDB, but while the consensus for Pinocchio is stronger, I think that Geppetto is actually more representative of the ENFP archetype. Ne, by itself, is oriented toward graphical relationships that are adjacent to the present contents of cognition – in other words, possibilities surrounding the object or connections to other objects, rather than the object itself. When Ne isn't tempered by other functions, it has an unrestricted, free-flowing quality to it. The upside to this is that Ne types can be highly imaginative and inventive. They daydream a lot. They enjoy unstructured play and like to tinker around with objects. This is Geppetto's cognitive baseline, not Fe. Geppetto also has the advantage of a well-developed Si function. I diverge from the classical Jungian definition here: I think Si tracks the context of objects over time in a way that emphasizes fixed or discrete associative relationships. This leads to a propensity for indexing, archiving, or, in Geppetto's case, collecting. Put another way, Si helps to focus or restrict Ne activity to singular domains. In Geppetto's case, we see all the imagination and tinkering that we would expect from mature Ne, but it is limited to the realm of clock- and toy-making, allowing him to flesh out all the fantastic minutiae of each object within his collection. Now, having said that, developed Si does not make Geppetto an INFP. He is, first and foremost, a Pe dominant, for whom constant external stimulation and exploration is the default mode of cognition. As for the middle axis, I think Geppetto shows a clear Te—Fi axis, not an Fe––Ti axis. This axis has an ontological bias toward mechanistic causal processes (Te) and animistic core identities (Fi). We see this in, for example, Geppetto's clocks. Each clock has a set of mechanical components that participate in a rigorously crafted causal process. But these aren't just plain machines. Each one contains a core characteristic that is human in some way. You could say that each has been endowed with a 'living spirit.' Geppetto's aspirations toward Pinocchio are similar. Wishing that a lifeless contraption had a soul is characteristic of Ne and Fi together.
Biography
Geppetto is a major character in Disney's 1940 animated feature film, Pinocchio. He is a kindly, old woodcarver and the creator of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet that is brought to life by the Blue Fairy per Geppetto's wish to have a son.
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