Michel Foucault MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Michel Foucault? Michel Foucault is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 7w6 - sx/so - 748 in Enneagram, SLUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
Why is he typed as a 7w6, you ask? Because one ignorant based their whole vote on a single anecdote, and eveybody fell for this: "Not every philosopher is a 5". So cool. And not every emperor is an 8, therefore Napoleon was actually an INFP-4w5. I'm not asking you to read his biography and full body of work. Just not to vote when you don't know ****. Foucault was (very) gay indeed, quite joyful, rebellious, undergound, and living as a very creative ENTP in the 1960s and 1970s, during the sexual revolution and a lot of political turmoil. No wonder he would enjoy life "like" a 7 sometimes, especially when you know he has been depressed, isolated and suicidal for years before, to the point of seeing himself as mad and seeking exile in Sweden to be alone. He was so passionate about knowledge he litterally had the best grades in every discipline all the way from elementary school to the most difficult College for humanities, Normale Sup. And no, it's not just about intelligence and helping a beautiful boy do his homework like he would claim to be funny and appear more rebellious than he really was. To be admitted to Normale Sup at 20, one of 40 guys out of 10,000 candidates, you must know pretty much everything. Just read the bloody Wikipedia: In his 20s, "he remained largely unpopular, spending much time alone, reading voraciously". Typical 7, right? "His fellow students noted his love of violence and the macabre; he decorated his bedroom with images of torture and war drawn during the Napoleonic Wars by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and on one occasion chased a classmate with a dagger…" We all know 7s just LOVE suffering. "Obsessed with the idea of self-mutilation and suicide, Foucault attempted the latter several times in ensuing years, praising suicide in later writings." His whole life and work is about Knowledge (and its link to Power, classic 5 -> 8 development). Every page is more erudite than most books will ever be. He would spend months alone just reading very old archives to fill his lack of confidence about his own knowledge and not appear as ignorant as he thought he was even at the peak of his career, when he was already a professor in France's most prestigious College, where the more erudite specialists give 20 hours seminars about the gaellic origin of the name of a single fountain in a lost and forgotten village… But Foucault would give the same interminable talks about the concept of pleasure in an old, forgotten greek manuscript, so he's a 7. I'm not wasting more time on this. Gonna go with the kind of arguments that work here: Not every joyful gay is a 7.
Biography
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.
