Nancy Drew MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Nancy Drew? Nancy Drew is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w9 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, in Big 5, LIE in Socionics.
Nancy is an ENTJ. Auxiliary Ni: The whole trademark of her character is her ability to arrive at sudden intuitive epiphanies when solving cases. This is Ni being fed by Se. By internally referencing the Se sensory data she unconsciously gathers in her daily life, she is able to realize trends and patterns from across time and thus gain insights otherwise overlooked. Introverted intuitive processing is unconscious, and, as such, we very often see her have these “aha” breakthrough moments that seem to come out of nowhere. Her Ni is also evident in her extreme reliance on hunches or gut feelings about people, cases, etc., which are more often correct than not. I can see why ISFP voters would think her Se strong enough to be auxiliary—it is very developed—but she is much too piloted by Ni for it to be tertiary. Tertiary Se: These aforementioned breakthrough moments are achieved through her absorption of her physical surroundings. Se is an extroverted function, unconsciously gathering external sensory data with extreme detail and clarity—and without a clear reason at first. Ni is what gives it that reason, as these sensory details gathered become an Ni narrative. As Se scouts information from the surrounding environment, Ni, also unconsciously, searches for universal connections between all of this different information that’s been gathered from various places and times. Her Se is also evident in her willingness to take immediate action when necessary, engaging in and influencing her physical environment. Her first instinct when arriving at the house containing the Copperhead’s cage was to throw a rock through a window to get in. She has a Te goal to accomplish, and she is ready to do so by improvising a solution in which she adjusts her surroundings to suit her needs. Though she can be quite impulsive and sensitive to in the moment feedback, which tend to be high Se traits, she is definitely more one to plan ahead, consider a problem from multiple angles so as not to overlook important complications, and zero in on what she concludes to be the most effective course of action (TeNi). Inferior Fi: I will admit, her Fi is much more developed than a lot of ENTJ characters I’ve watched, but it is certainly not the function she leads with (and inferior Te is absolutely out of the question). She does have an internal moral code and personal values, evident in her drive to use her powers of deduction to help others and her desire to right the wrongs of her relatives. But I would not say these are what guide her whole being like they would an Fi dominant. Again, her Fi is far from abysmal, but if you watch the show, it is obvious that it’s still her most underdeveloped function. For example, the whole reason she and Nick broke up was because she couldn’t allow herself to be open and emotionally vulnerable with him. One way inferior Fi manifests is an inability to form deep relations with others, something Nancy clearly struggles with. Fi seeks internal harmony. Literally the entire final arc of season two was about Nancy finally coming to terms with all of the trauma and resulting emotional turmoil she had been suppressing for YEARS. Once she stops shoving all of that down and deals with it, she is finally able to accept that it is a part of her identity and what has made her who she is, and she gains a sense of internal peace. Her years-long struggle with her concept of “self” is very clearly inferior/repressed Fi, but she develops it more by the end of season 2. Another example: When Temperance is struck by that light monster that wanted to swallow her most painful heartbreak, which turned out to be a memory of her daughter who then appeared as a ghost, Nancy and Bess leave the room momentarily to discuss what they should do. Nancy tells Bess they need to get the monster to swallow that memory. Bess, a high Fi user, tells Nancy “maybe we should take a light approach” so as to be considerate of Temperance’s feelings and have empathy for her (Fi is widely thought to be the function most talented at empathy). Nancy, unconcerned, storms back in, bluntly stating “how’d your daughter die” to Temperance, who’s writhing in pain on the table. “Te-doms can use Fi consciously for tasks that require attention to individual needs and concerns. For instance, when trying to understand a complex relationship problem, it would be important to examine the thoughts and feelings of the people involved. However, since Fi is the opposing force to Te, Te is very prone to overriding and repressing Fi and misunderstanding its fundamental nature.” - https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/140050745702/how-functions-work-inferior-fi-ESTJENTJ (Dominant Te: I’m gonna come back and write something for this after next season comes out because I typed this out months ago during a random stream of consciousness and was gonna finish it after finals, but then I forgot about it entirely and now don’t feel like rewatching for examples.)
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