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
Category: Psychology
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
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
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
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
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
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915 – 1998) was a Jungian psychologist and close associate of Jung. In her book, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, von Franz lays out some general principles of Jungian typology as she sees them, which we reiterate below. All quotations are from the Inner City Books 1998 edition of the book. 1: As[…] Continue Reading
By Boye Akinwande, with additions by Eva Gregersen As I’m sure may currently be the case for many of you, I was quite skeptical of CelebrityTypes’ type assessment of Kanye West as an ISFJ when I first came across it. At the time of this writing, there appears to be no “default” assessment of West’s type,[…] Continue Reading
Torben Mark Pedersen is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Pedersen’s piece represents his own insights and assessments and not necessarily those of the site. By Torben Mark Pedersen, Ph.D. David Hume was arguably the greatest thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment. According to Hume, society is not “planned from[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith In this installment, I intend to discuss the Fi/Te axis as it appears in Homeric psychology. My discussion will be conducted on the basis of A.W.H. Adkins’s exposition of the Homeric mindset, as it appears in his book From the Many to the One.[1] I will first attempt a general outline of[…] Continue Reading