Phil Ochs MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Phil Ochs? Phil Ochs is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 1w2 - - 145 in Enneagram, in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
Fascinating example of an INFJ gone mad--the horror of the 1968 DNC completely shattered his Ni vision for a better America, which, combined with his bipolar disorder, left him in a deep depression he never came out of. In the last year of his life, he (apparently unwillingly) assumed the alter ego of John Butler Train, whose sheer level of depravity can only be likened to an Se grip on speed. A somewhat healthier example of his personality at work can be seen in his last album/tour. In a last-ditch effort to get his message across to the public at large and spark revolutionary change, he sought to transform himself into what he termed a fusion of Elvis and Che Guevara--effectively trying to reconcile conceptual opposites with each other (Ni) to rally the public behind a common cause (Fe). Unfortunately, had his Se been more developed, he might have realized that folk fans wouldn't react well to him suddenly playing country music and wearing a gold lame suit...
Biography
Philip David "Phil" Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American Singer-Songwriter, famous for his protest songs (or "topical songs", as he liked to call them). He was the most active during The '60s, when he wrote hundreds of songs, covering many topics, such as The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and labor rights. After the events of 1968 (the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the police riot in Chicago, and the election of Richard Nixon) he became increasingly disillusioned and depressed, eventually leading to severe mental illness which drove him to hang himself in 1976.
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