Nikolai Gogol tipo di personalità MBTI
Personalità
"Che tipo di personalità è Nikolai Gogol? Nikolai Gogol è un tipo di personalità in mbti, 5w4 - sx/sp - 548 in enneagram, RLUEI in big 5, IEI in socionics."
Ni dom? Really? Nikolai Gogol definitely seems to be a Ne/Si user. While it's easy to look at his works like Diary of a Madman and say it's the product of Ne because it's random and eccentric, we must look at how he derived his stories, the thought process behind them, and his life. In his writing, Gogol often synthesized his unique and original stories based on loose stories he'd heard from others. This process was the backbone of some of his most popular works. "According to the memoirist Pavel Annenkov, Gogol first conceived the idea for the [The Overcoat] based on an anecdote he had heard at a tea party […] Annenkov records: ‘Everyone laughed at the story, based on a true event, except Gogol, who listened thoughtfully with lowered head. This anecdote provided the initial idea for his wonderful story “The Overcoat.” Gogol very often took his themes from external facts and anecdotes provided by others – the prime examples are Dead Souls and The Government Inspector, based on anecdotal material given him by Pushkin." Gogol did the same thing with Diary of a Madman; Poprishchin's delusions were based on his acquaintance's experiences with people who had suffered from the same condition as the story's protagonist. Following his death, Gogol's personal doctor recounted a conversation the two had about Diary of a Madman, "'When I told him that I constantly observe psychopaths and even possess authentic notes, I wanted to discover from him if he read similar accounts before he wrote this work. He replied: 'I did, but afterwards.' 'So how is it all so close to reality?' I asked. 'That’s easy, I just had to imagine it.'" This is peak Ne-Si, using isolated anecdotes (valued information collected through Si) to extrapolate them into an original story and to figure out the events and details along the way. While most authors do the same thing, the way he spins these real experiences and impressions to generate new ideas to fill in the blanks, link them together into a cohesive story is clearly a product of Ne-Si. On the contrary, Ni-Se would take in all of this information and strip it down to a singular concept and write a story based on this interpretation instead of branching it out. Furthermore, the predicament he got himself into when he tried to become a professor at a university seems to be the result of high Ne, but really low Si usage. For a bit of context, Nikolai Gogol developed an interest in Ukrainian Cossack history and wanted to work as a historian. He applied for a position, but was initially rejected. "In 1834, Gogol was made Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Petersburg, a job for which he had no qualifications. The academic venture proved a disaster: He turned in a performance ludicrous enough to warrant satiric treatment in one of his own stories. After an introductory lecture made up of brilliant generalizations which the 'historian' had prudently prepared and memorized, he gave up all pretense at erudition and teaching, missed two lectures out of three, and when he did appear, muttered unintelligibly through his teeth. At the final examination, he sat in utter silence with a black handkerchief wrapped around his head, feigning a toothache, while another professor interrogated the students." This section of his biography stuck out to me a lot, because it sounds like the exact situation described in the article about inferior Si on MBTI notes: "Thus, when Ne becomes overextended, Ne-doms may exhibit somewhat desperate attempts to avoid acknowledging details and personal limitations so that they can feel continually connected to the world of possibility and defend against the restrictive and disciplined nature of Si. For example, they might: present themselves as “experts” and fool themselves into thinking that they have all the facts and details, exude a false air of competence through nitpicking or obsessing over little details, [...] suddenly feel exhausted when confronted with too many loose ends to take care of, be unwilling to admit that they have stretched themselves too far, [...] and so on." Although he was passionate about the subject, he failed to consider the limitations of his knowledge and experience and it ended in a disaster. His failure to acknowledge these practical matters left him feeling defeated because he couldn't actualize his lofty goal. I'd like to imagine he genuinely thought he could handle it, but when it proved to be to difficult he played it off ironically. (1/2)
Biografia
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque. His writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire. The period of literary modernism saw a revival of interest in and a change of attitude towards Gogol's work.
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