Andrew MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Andrew? Andrew is an ISFJ personality type in MBTI, - sp/so - 216 in Enneagram, RLOEN in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
Andrew’s Inferior Ne: The whole thing with John The Baptist leaves Andrew’s Inferior Ne in clear view. He holds John in high esteem, in that very sweet Si-Fe way, when he’s all but made John part of his family. He admires John, I think, mostly because John’s dominant Ne is sublime for his own inferior Ne to see, (in the same way John the apostle’s inf. Te loves measuring up to his brother’s Te-dom ways.) In the boat, after John’s arrest, Andrew’s on a clear inferior Ne grip. He is only able to see the catastrophic possibilities of not following what’s ‘tried and true’ according to Si. “She should have gone to Jesus!” He calls back to Simon’s “gambling and brawling” (another deviation from the Si path that had its consequences) and calls Mary’s disappearance “selfish.” (Fe) Then, his Ne starts to truly spiral, making connections that are a bit outlandish to end up in: “And they’re hunting us down now!” Simon’s Se-dom response is actually hilarious, “they’re not hunting us down, you’re so dramatic!” “ they don’t even open the mail from Wadi-kelt.” (Se, grounded in reality.) That’s when Andrew’s Si-held fear surfaces. His Si cannot process what happened to John without adding this new possibility (arrest) to his Si-Ti equations. So when he actually sees proof in the approaching romans his inferior Ne grip absolutely overwhelms him. “I knew it!” He screams. For a Si dom it must be horrifying to see such horrible Ne fears become true. It overthrows their whole Si blueprint. When John brings up they agreed to surrender peacefully Andrew is uncharacteristically angry. His inferior Ne is terrified with overwhelming possibilities and so he brings them up then. “They can change their minds!” Then he argues Jesus shouldn’t have to ask them for help, a very interesting Fe understanding of what is owed to others. He lashes out towards Mary because in his Ne-obscured world it is her deviation from his Si norms what’s caused this. He worries about John’s immediate well-being with his Si-Fe and practically starts spiraling out before Jesus tells him, “you need to rest and to trust.” In other words, to not be skeptical of the unknown with his Si-dom nature. When he meets up with John there’s a very significant scene in which John tries to get him to think in terms of Ne abstractions and not Si realities. He tells him the “prison is nothing” and asks Andrew if he believes it. Andrew grips the bars of the prison, solid and real for him, and says, truthfully, “I’m trying.” Throughout season 3 we see him develop his inferior Ne more and more as he slowly realizes there’s more to abstract thinking than horrifying possibilities, especially during the finale, with the feeding of the five thousand. It will be interesting to see how it keeps developing during the coming seasons and how far Andrew can make it once he’s a healthy ISFJ. We saw a glimpse of it during the scene with Philip when he keeps his composure thanks to his grounding Si-Fe. Well-developed ISFJ’s are so needed and wonderful! 🙌
