Edgar Allan Poe MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Edgar Allan Poe? Edgar Allan Poe is an personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - sp/sx - 451 in Enneagram, RLUEI in Big 5, in Socionics.
Don't spray if you don't like it. 🥺Thanks!Thanks!Thanks! Being a great fan of Poe, I have been thinking this for a long time. My greatest confuse is whether he is a INFP or INTP. (Because most of us think he is a INFP, while as for me, I think he is more like INTP than INFP.)The evidence is as follows: Many people learn about Poe from his novels, but he is an artist, and the characters created by him is not Edgar Allan Poe! He created the narrator of "the Black Cat" and "the Tell-Tale Heart" that doesn't mean that he is a murderer. Also, he created many different person with different personality, such as C. Auguste Dupin who is definitely a INTP, while Roderick Usher is definitely a INFP, so it is unwise to judge a person merely by his tales which describe others. So I look for evidence from his essays. INTP evidence: "The highest order of the imaginative intellect is always pre-eminently mathematical, or analytical; and the converse of this proposition is equally true." — AMERICAN POETRY. "For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analyzed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on my part to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together. I select “The Raven,” as the most generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition — that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.”——THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION. “At a cursory glance, these various modes of constructing a cipher seem to have about them an air of inscrutable secrecy. It appears almost an impossibility to unriddle what has been put together by so complex a method. And to some persons the difficulty might be great; but to others — to those skilled in deciphering — such enigmas are very simple indeed. The reader should bear in mind that the basis of the whole art of solution, as far as regards these matters, is found in the general principles of the formation of language itself, and thus is altogether independent of the particular laws which govern any cipher, or the construction of its key.”——A FEW WORDS ON SECRET WRITING. Also there are INFP evidence: “To the few who love me and whom I love — to those who feel rather than to those who think — to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities — I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone: — let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.”——EUREKA: A PROSE POEM. (And there are many analysis, maybe he states that only because he wants to show the importance of intuition, or it is the evidence of high fi) Above all, I think he has the character of both INTP and INFP, just like me and many of you whose results may jump around from time to time. If he is a INFP, he must be a INFP with high logical thinking or if he is a INTP, he must be a INTP with high fi(just like me,hhh)
