Genie MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Genie? Genie is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 7w6 - so/sx - 729 in Enneagram, SLUAI 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.] I agree with the ENFP consensus. I find it helpful to represent the Ne––Si axis as a series of modules or boxes. Whereas Si prefers to populate each box, individually and separately, with a richly dense array of acquired objects, Ne prefers to skip from box to box, grabbing a detail here, a detail there, and weaving a loosely connective tapestry of mental objects outside of the boxes. This is what Robin Wil– uhhh…Genie is doing here with all of his impressions, pop culture references, and other miscellaneous observations: grabbing mental objects from boxes and connecting them tangentially to mental objects in the real world, in real time, creating a continuous but unfocused flow of information. Regarding the middle axis, ask yourself this: Does it seem like Genie has an emotional filter? Is he measured and smooth? Does he play to his audience in a calculated way? My answers to all of these would be No. Types with an Fi––Te axis tend to be more candid in how they express themselves. This is due, in part, to Fi's need for natural authenticity; it is also due, in part, to the fact that Te does not include things like human affect in the list of factors by which it draws conclusions. A conclusion is a conclusion, no matter how it affects people emotionally. Genie may be charismatic, but it's not the kind of charisma that comes from reading the room. It is the kind of charisma that comes from unabashedly and unapologetically letting one's inner affective state shine forth, even at the risk of momentary awkwardness.
Biography
The Genie is the tritagonist of Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin. He is a larger-than-life jinn residing in a magic oil lamp originating from the Cave of Wonders. For thousands of years, the Genie served as a slave to whomever held ownership of his lamp, to which he was eternally bound unless granted freedom by a master. The Genie possesses phenomenal cosmic power that allows him to grant wishes, shapeshift, and transcend space and time. The Genie is loosely based on the Genie of the Lamp featured in the One Thousand and One Nights folk tale, Aladdin. The figure in the tale, while important, was portrayed as a mere slave while the Disney interpretation was greatly expanded into an identifiable character personality, the most notable difference being the Disney genie's ultimate wish to be free.
