What is the personality type of Jocasta? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Jocasta from Rome and what is the personality traits.
Jocasta personality type is ESFP, although some scholars have suggested she is an ESFJ. Since she is married to two men, it could be argued that she is a psychopath and "normal" in most respects, only with a highly maladaptive psychopathic/ESFP persona. She is also based on a character from Greek mythology, Jocasta, the mother of Oedipus (the story of Oedipus and Jocasta was used by Sophocles in Oedipus Rex, his most famous play).
She seems to be a very strong and independent woman but she is a narcissist and extremely selfish in love. She has a very high tendency to deceive people, especially her husband. She seeks attention and will do anything to receive it. She can be very cruel. She has a very high intelligence and is a very good actress, but she can be very cunning and manipulative in order to get what she wants.
She was an extremely sadistic woman, as seen with her plan to kill her son Oedipus. She also killed her son Polybus with a poisonous snake, which would have been easier than killing him by bludgeoning him to death.