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Mother Gothel MBTI Personality Type

Mother Gothel MBTI Personality Type

Tangled (2010)Mother Gothel

Mother Gothel Personality Type

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What personality type is Mother Gothel? Mother Gothel is an personality type in MBTI, 3w2 - sx/sp - 386 in Enneagram, SLOEN in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.

Mother Gothel is SX2 271 ESE: (1/4) So, another one of these E2 mistyped as E3 profiles. It’s getting kinda stale at this point. However, as the title of this argument implies, I will be arguing for 3 things: the SX2 as Mother Gothel’s core type, her trifix being 271 and of course for her sociotype. Let’s not waste any time and get into it, shall we? I’d quickly like to note if you’re going to butt into this argument with knowledge about her that comes from anywhere other than the tangled movie, I don’t wanna hear it. I am typing the movie character and how I perceived her core motivations to manifest in this movie only. That means no rebuttals that have to do with her appearance in the Tangled TV show. Having disclaimed that I’ll begin with the character analysis section of this argument. So, movie-wise, we didn’t see much of Gothel’s true motivations. The only thing we know she really wanted was immortality and she used the re-vitalizing properties of Rapunzel’s hair in order to achieve this goal. She has an extreme fixation on her beauty, appearance and feeding her self image through these things. Now, what we do get is Gothel’s attitude towards her daughter and there is no better way to describe her other than a ‘smother’. What I mean by a smother is a parent (typically the mother) that is overly affectionate with the child and pampers them so much that they don’t let the child enjoy life by themselves resulting in a metaphorical suffocation. Children of smothers will often note how guilty they feel going against the desires of their parents as the parents constantly make them believe they truly love them when in reality their love is harmful and toxic. Now, in some regards, smothers could potentially be loving, however, in Gothel’s case this is absolutely not true. Having understood Gothel to be a character that puts on a facade of love and generosity in order to extort her ‘daughter’ for her magical hair in order to feed her ultimate goal of eternal youth, let’s get to the main part of this argument: her enneatype. So, why then, is Gothel an SX2 over an SX3? I will begin by outlining what exactly the SX2 is and comparing the bits of it I believe fit her character. I will follow this by doing the same with the SX3 and pointing out how I believe it doesn’t match her. Without further ado, let’s start. The SX2 is the passion of Pride swelling in the sexual instinct. As many of you know, this is the archetype of the maneater, the siren, the femme fatale. A person that uses their sexual charisma in order to attract worthy partners and turning them into their personal lap dog in order to feed their inflated sense of self. What this contact between the sexual instinct and Pride leads to is the formation of the neurotic need of Seduction (or aggressive seduction in full). Seduction is described as follows by Naranjo: «Seduction, the word that defines her passion, is, in the sexual E2, the desperate attempt to fill the existential void reaching a love unreal. The intrinsic belief is: "They don't want me for who I am, I have to make myself wish, I must be irresistible, display my weapons". But the affective vacuum is not filled; nothing satisfies her. Hence the continuous search for an ever greater intensity. The sexual E2 uses seduction to the limit of its possibilities, and on both sides of the secum ducere: leading towards the other, to capture the other towards himself. She thus refines her attention of every detail of the relationship that allows her to understand if she is loved, and how much, and if it is considered special. She shows always welcoming and forgiving even when she criticizes the recipient of her love (while she knows how to become a lasher when she wants to point out estrangement from her). Warm, personable and enthusiastic, she enjoys the company of the other and is able to take care of them until she anticipates their needs.» (1) Now, this quote is absolutely enormous. So let’s break it down. Effectively, what Naranjo is trying to say here is that (similarly to the SX7 if you read my Jules argument), the SX2 seeks to be irresistible in the eyes of others so that it may feed its Pride through the passionate attachment of others to itself. The ego-fixation of false abundance in the SX2 (all 2s actually but we’re speaking about the SX subtype here) leads them to embody a falsely generous facade whereby they seem giving and full so as to attract people’s attention to them. This is effectively Gothel’s entire character. She is a woman who searches for immortality and eternal beauty to generate attraction from other people and searches for exaltation through her appearance. Moreover, this seductive facade can be used to covertly gain things from the person in question (such as her guilt tripping Rapunzel into staying in the tower). Also notice the bracketed part of the quote: while she knows how to become a lasher when she wants to point out estrangement from her.

Biography

A wicked crone who retained youth for hundreds of years through the healing properties of a magic, golden flower. When the flower's powers were unintentionally transferred to the hair of Rapunzel, Gothel kidnapped the princess and locked her away in a secluded tower, where she hoarded Rapunzel's healing magic.