The Idiot Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The Idiot? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The Idiot from Woyzeck and what is the personality traits.
INFP (XwX)
The Idiot personality type is INFP, the Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving type. INFPs are known for their gentle, caring, and compassionate nature. They are known for their natural curiosity and creativity, and they are very good at making things (and often other people) feel happy. They are also known for their unique insight, high intuition, and deep appreciation for beauty.
INFPs are the rarest personality type, with only one out of every twenty-five people being an INFP personality.
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The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the consequences of placing such a singular individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. Joseph Frank describes The Idiot as "the most personal of all Dostoevsky's major works, the book in which he embodies his most intimate, cherished, and sacred convictions."
