BoJack F. Horseman MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is BoJack F. Horseman? BoJack F. Horseman is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 7w8 - sp/sx - 378 in Enneagram, SLUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
bojack is the perfect example of how the enneagram isn't about what you do, it's about why you do it. it may affect your personality, but it doesn't define it. y'all, being a partier does not make him a seven. he is such a three. i had a sobering realization of this while watching xerox of a xerox again where he talks about how his life felt like nothing but an acting job. and it kind of was. his parents constantly told him he would only ever be worthwhile if he did something great ('you better do something great with your life, to make up for all the mess you've caused', 'nobody cares what you feel..now you go up there and you do the only thing you're good for, which is singing the goddamn lollipop song'). this instilled in him a deeply repressed sense of shame, the belief that he needs to perform in order to be worthwhile. he didn't experience a loss of nurturing like sevens often do; he never HAD nurturing unless he earned it by performing. it's why he feels so lost and worthless when he doesn't have anything to do. in stress, 3s take on the negative traits of 9, becoming lazy and sluggish. this is exactly what we see bojack doing for almost the entire show. he tries to get attention and praise by boasting about horsin' around and becomes defensive whenever it's insulted, because he feels it’s the only thing about him that’s worth love. and he wants people to see the image of a successful actor, not the broken person he actually is. i think he's a social three because he's so focused on looking like he's more accomplished than, say, mr. peanutbutter. i think that's part of why he so often resents him. there is definitely an argument for 7. he has a lot of seven qualities, but what really convinced me that he was a three is his need for validation. he brags about his accomplishments to seek out validation, he wants to be told that he’s worthwhile (think about when he begged diane to reassure him that it wasn’t too late for him - he needs validation from external sources to feel worthwhile). He literally waits to call an ambulance for Sarah Lynn so that he wouldn’t be associated with what happened, so that his public image wouldn’t be further compromised. I really don’t think someone who’s dominant type seven would care that much about how they appear, or about their image - at least, not to the point where they'd be willing to do that to maintain it. idk where y’all are getting four for the heart triad from. yeah, he wallows in his pain, but fours tend to do that because they feel like it’s something that sets them apart. I don't get that vibe from him. bojack doesn’t seem to care about being unique so much as he cares about being admired. fours want to be authentically themselves, and that’s literally the antithesis to how bojack manipulates situations so that people admire him. Look at the first xerox of a xerox interview - bojack is coached through what to say and do so that he’ll garner public sympathy. In fact, the closest he ever gets to being authentic is when he talks about how he felt like ‘a xerox of a xerox of a person’, and how he always defined himself by performance - in other words, the essence of a type three.
Biography
A misanthropic, bitter, severely depressed horse who once starred in the 90s sitcom Horsin' Around.
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