René Girard Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of René Girard? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for René Girard from Western Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
INFJ (6w5)
René Girard personality type is INFJ, and I'm one of the few INFJs who's been able to articulate this. I'm also one of the few INFJs who's been able to articulate how INFJs and INFPs (the core types that make up the INFJ-INFP dichotomy) can and do interact with each other, and how the two types can complement each other.
The INFJ-INFP dichotomy is one of those dichotomies that's been around since the beginning of time. (Oh, and ditto for the ENFJ-INFP dichotomy.) Both types are rare and misunderstood, and both types are underrepresented in the literature. Our understanding of how these two types relate to each other has been woefully inadequate, because it's so hard to tease apart the two types.
I have a lot of thoughts on both of these issues. But I'm not going to be talking about them today, because I want to focus on just one thing: INFJ-INFP relationships.
INFJs are often said to be "all about" relationships, but this is just people thinking that the INFJ has an unhealthy relationship with themselves. The INFJ is all about relationships.
Wikipedia: René Noël Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains.
Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.
For Girard, religion and mythology were therefore necessary steps in human evolution to control the violence that arises from mimetic rivalry and unequal distribution of desirable things. Religion directed the scapegoat impulse on imaginary concepts, such as Satan or demons, the absence of which would see an increase in human conflict, according to Girard.
