Star Wars Big Five: Emperor Palpatine

By Sigurd Arild, Eva Gregersen, and Ryan Smith This series of articles analyzes the characters from ‘Star Wars’ (original trilogy only) on the basis of the Big Five system of personality which is the most widely used personality test in social science and which has sometimes been referred to as “the only truly scientific personality[…] Continue Reading

Star Wars Big Five: Obi-Wan Kenobi

By Sigurd Arild, Eva Gregersen, and Ryan Smith This series of articles analyzes the characters from ‘Star Wars’ (original trilogy only) on the basis of the Big Five system of personality which is the most widely used personality test in social science and which has sometimes been referred to as “the only truly scientific personality[…] Continue Reading

Star Wars Big Five: Han Solo

By Sigurd Arild, Eva Gregersen, and Ryan Smith This series of articles analyzes the characters from ‘Star Wars’ (original trilogy only) on the basis of the Big Five system of personality which is the most widely used personality test in social science and which has sometimes been referred to as “the only truly scientific personality test.” Compared to Jungian[…] Continue Reading

Spiritual Star Wars: Luke Confronts Vader

By Ryan Smith Watch this piece as a video here. George Lucas has said that “Star Wars is a synthesis of all religions.” But which religions inspired what? What religion inspired this? VADER: The Emperor has been expecting you. LUKE: I know, father. VADER: So, you have accepted the truth. LUKE: I’ve accepted the truth[…] Continue Reading

Star Wars Big Five: Boba Fett

By Sigurd Arild, Eva Gregersen, and Ryan Smith ***Watch this article as a video here.*** This series of articles analyzes the characters from ‘Star Wars’ (original trilogy only) on the basis of the Big Five system of personality which is the most widely used personality test in social science and which has sometimes been referred to as “the only[…] Continue Reading

Primer on Parmenides

Shawn Daniels is a Ph.D. of classical studies and contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Daniels’ piece represents his own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site.  By Shawn Daniels, Ph.D. Parmenides was born in the colony of Elea, a coastal town in the southwest of[…] Continue Reading

Determining Function Axes, Part 8

Michael Pierce is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Pierce’s piece represents his own insights and type assessments and not necessarily those of the site. In this article, Pierce elaborates on the concept of function axes.  By Michael Pierce All types have one perceiving axis (N/S) and one judging[…] Continue Reading

Jung in Plain Language, Part 2: Fi

By Ryan Smith Fi is chiefly determined by the internal psychic landscape. It is quite different from Fe, just like Ti is different from Te. But it is very difficult to describe Fi with words, or intellectually, because its nature is so peculiar. However, even if we cannot describe Fi intellectually, we can become aware[…] Continue Reading

Commentary on Briggs’ Definition of Fe

Hannah Strachan is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Strachan’s piece represents her own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site (in fact, she details some direct disagreements with our approach below). In this piece, Strachan attempts to correct what she sees as some widespread[…] Continue Reading

Imagining Function Axes: Si/Ne

Mary Arrington is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Arrington’s piece represents her own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site. In this piece, Arrington attempts a more informal and colloquial exposition of function axes theory than is usually seen.  By Mary Arrington Function[…] Continue Reading