Beatrice Redden "Bibi" MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Beatrice Redden "Bibi"? Beatrice Redden "Bibi" is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 2w3 - sx/sp - 287 in Enneagram, SCOEI in Big 5, SEE in Socionics.
I typed Bibi SX2 as well at first, but someone opened my eyes on SX8 for her and after reading the E2 book I’m completely certain. SX2 may be the most aggressive of the E2s but they are still apart of the image triad and will always appear people oriented and generous: >Sexual Two has the ability to make others feel at ease: they are generous, forgiving, and flattering. >He is always welcoming and forgiving, even when criticizing the recipient of his love. Warm, humane, and enthusiastic, he enjoys the other’s company and is able to care for him to the point of anticipating his needs. Bibi is immediately portrayed as someone detached from society. She has an extremely difficult time empathising with people and doesn’t understand why she should care about her image at all. Nobody at school likes her and she starts fights constantly. There is not an ounce of sociability in her character: “Bibi has trouble empathising with her peers. A matter that requires a professional in that area.” “If you set your mind to it, you could become a great leader. I’m curious why someone as you refuses to build relationships with others.” Bibi: “What would I gain from doing that?” Moreover, SX2s are described to be tolerant to the point of self-denial. They don’t know how to be honest, convinced that the only way they’ll be loved is by flattering and giving to others constantly: >He discovered early that, to get attention, he must use the flattering of words, not understanding that the other would prefer him to be truthful. He remains confused in an indulgent attitude, smiling kindly. There is continuous effort to seem up to the task, to be pleasant. >The associated irrational ideas are “If you are confrontational and show your anger, they won’t love you” and “If you show yourself as you are, they won’t love you.” Bibi is nothing but honest about her domineering personality. She’s been referred to as crazy and monstrous by the people around her, yet she still refuses to build relationships with others. This is a cause of concern for many people in her life, but Bibi simply doesn’t care to make herself likeable. >Another strategy, which belongs more to the conservationists, but is present in all E2 subtypes, is to appear as a good boy/girl. It’s a way of not getting into open conflict, of not confronting, a kind of implicit pact of non-aggression. Nobody wants to hurt a child, much less if he is good. This strategy stems from the child’s way of making himself lovable by hiding the bad parts. If the good child is what is socially accepted, the bad child is the one who has not hyperadapted to the desires of others, erasing his own. Bibi has expressed violent tendencies ever since she was a child. She has never in her entire life cared enough about others to change her personality for them. She openly uses people, manipulates them and doesn’t even pretend to feel empathy for it. She doesn’t strive to win people over by being generous and kind, or giving in to their whims to make herself likeable. Instead, she wants to posses them, to have them all for herself. She continuously does whatever she wants and expects others to be okay with it. When they’re not, she simply doesn’t considers their point of view and moves on. She’s so set on her goals and object of possession that she can’t even focus on people enough to remember how they look. The first time we see her get introduced to Amy, she sees her as a blob with no features. It takes her multiple meetings with Camilla to actually pay attention to her face. She lacks social awareness to the extreme. >In Sexual Two, the undisputable argument is his emotion: things are a certain way “Because I feel that way”. >Sexual E2 also feels more than he thinks, and values the emotional and sentimental world much more than the cognitive. SX8 is also an “emotional” type, in the sense that they are extremely passionate and intense, but SX2 is hyperaware of both their own and other peoples emotions. They seek to feel things deeply and are energised by emotion. Meanwhile, Bibi lacks any awareness of the emotional sphere: “I don’t recall feeling sad. No, did I even feel bad? I think I did when I was very little. Perhaps a little down…now I feel absolutely nothing about it.” “Is this how it’s supposed to go? If I’m going to kill the man I love, I should be feeling more emotional than I am now. I should be suffering in pain and agony like the little mermaid. So why doesn’t this feel any different to putting dirty plates away into the dishwasher…” She never knows how she feels, never knows how other people feel and shows no interest in the emotional sphere at all. All this antisocial behaviour mixed with her emotional detachment fits SX8 perfectly. Naranjo gives an example of an SX8 from “The Idiot” by Dostoyevsky, who is quite similar to Bibi:
