Tobias Fünke MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Tobias Fünke? Tobias Fünke is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sx/so - 471 in Enneagram, SLUAI in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.
Why not E7?? Especially when taking the Sexual subtype into account. I can sort of understand the E4 consensus when thinking of how dramatic Tobias can be, but that’s about all that applies. The E4s fixation is melancholy, which means they are rarely happy with the present and can spend long periods of time dwelling on the negatives. On the inside, they often feel inferior and envy others who “have it better” than them. Tobias, on the other hand, is overly enthusiastic and always seems to find a way to put a positive spin on things. This all seems to fit well with E7’s defense mechanism of rationalization. “It reinterprets the reality of a situation or one's actions, focusing on positive aspects in order to justify or explain one's behavior by making it appear good and noble, thus getting around obstacles to one's pleasure as well as fleeing from consequences, setbacks and feelings of guilt.” -https://wiki.personality-database.com/books/enneagram/page/type-7 Tobias also dreams of becoming an actor and has pursued this career for the entirety of the series, despite finding little to no success. In these efforts to become an actor, Tobias continuously ignores the rest of his family’s needs in place of his own desires, which can point towards the E7’s lack of discipline. “A lack of discipline is related to the avoidance of commitment and limitations to one's pursuit of satisfaction. It is a consequence of the unwillingness to postpone pleasure and manifests as instability, lack of commitment and dilettanism.” -https://wiki.personality-database.com/books/enneagram/page/type-7#bkmrk-references The overly dramatic tendencies that Tobias has can also be found in E7, and are common with the Sexual subtype. This description applies to a lot of Tobias’ character as a whole. “He is a character with delusions of grandeur, who looks at life in a big way, who makes excessive plans that he later cannot achieve... But that grandiloquence and exaggeration hides the need for a look that will rescue him from his low self-esteem. He confuses being admired with cultivating his self-love; hence, he measures his personal worth based on how dazzled others are. His narcissistic self-inflation attempts to compensate for his schizoid inner emptiness and less-admittable feelings of unworthiness, insecurity, and guilt, of which he is often unaware. Deep down, he reassures himself and self-indulgences so much, through the recognition of others, that it is not surprising that he is defined as a "enchanted charmer."” -https://wiki.personality-database.com/books/enneagram/page/sexual-7-in-detail Tobias also rarely doubts his abilities as an actor. He seems to believe that one day everything will fall into place. His way of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses fits extremely well with the Sexual E7 description. “Individuals with the Sexual Seven subtype are gluttons for things of the higher world—for optimistically seeing things as they could be in the ideal world of their imaginations. Sexual Sevens are dreamers with a need to imagine something better than stark, ordinary reality. These Sevens have a passion for embellishing everyday reality, for being too enthusiastic, and for idealizing things and seeing the world as better than it actually is. Their gluttony gets expressed as a need for idealization.” -https://wiki.personality-database.com/books/enneagram/page/sexual-7-in-detail Here’s a compilation of scenes that showcase some of these traits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XBPpbTTm83o
Biography
Michael's brother-in-law, Tobias is Lindsay's husband. An ex-psychiatrist who was drummed out of the profession following his license being revoked as a result of misinterpreting what he thought was a heart attack. He then decides that his true calling is acting, even though he is terrible at it. He has trouble bonding with his daughter, and constantly makes homosexual innuendos in his speech, even though he insists he isn't gay. He is also a "Never Nude", a condition that prevents him from ever being fully naked. In Season 4, he becomes romantically involved with a former actress and methadone addict named DeBrie Bardeaux.
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