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#21 · (Edited)
Black Lotus said:
I was meaning to get back to you to say I was wrong and I completely agree with you. I knew much less about mbti and the cognitive functions back then. Shallow knowledge on my part. Jessa is more than likely a ISFP.

The rest of my guesses:

Adam ISTP?
Ray INTx
Hannah ENFP
Marnie ESFJ

Sort of hard to guess the characters in this show though.
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Nahhhhhh

Hannah: INFP
Jessa: ESFP
Marnie: ESTJ
Ray: ENTP
Adam: ESTP
Charlie: ISFJ

Pretty sure about all of these.

intpanonyme said:
Hannah: INFP duh
Marnie: ESTJ
Jessa: ESFP
Shoshanna: ESFJ
Adam: INTJ, but I may only think this because he reminds me so much of an INTJ I know
Charlie: INFx
Ray: INTP
Elijah: ESFP (possibly ESFJ?)
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So, mostly right. Disagree on Adam, Ray, and Charlie. (see above)

Haven't seen Elijah yet.
 
#23 · (Edited)
Black Lotus said:
I was meaning to get back to you to say I was wrong and I completely agree with you. I knew much less about mbti and the cognitive functions back then. Shallow knowledge on my part. Jessa is more than likely a ISFP.

The rest of my guesses:

Adam ISTP?
Ray INTx
Hannah ENFP
Marnie ESFJ

Sort of hard to guess the characters in this show though.
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i kinda feel like Adam is tooo damn quirky to be ISTP, honestly... his quirkiness is so quirky that it almost seems rigid and thinker-y some of the time so he's difficult to type... but honestly he reminds me of some wacky INFPs i know. he always seems to operate from his inner feelings. the actor seems INFP to me so maybe he influences it.

hannah seems pure Fi to me... too down and whiny and not energetic enough to be ENFP. she's INFP, just like lena.

jessa is clearly ISFP to me... ESFPs are off the wall with energy and jessa is very chill. she has that droll yet in the moment who cares? kind of nature.

hard to tell with marnie because the actress is so freaking bad :/

i think Ray is INTP because ENTPs are generally way more energetic/forward moving than he is. he reminds me of many INTPs i know... dark and droll

omg you have to watch this video----this girl seems so much like shosh it's crazy!!!
 
#25 ·
sarahbelle68 said:
huh? the show centers around her but that has nothing to do with cognitive functions... i don't think having a few different friends = Fe.
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It's not so much that she has friends, but she is always vomiting her feelings and always seems to be other oriented more so than Jessa, Marnie or even Shoshona. As I said before, she is the glue that keeps all her friends together and seems to be the most outwardly supportive. Her feeling seems more extroverted than introverted, in that way. I just don't see why everyone is saying Fi.
 
#26 ·
Arrow said:
It's not so much that she has friends, but she is always vomiting her feelings and always seems to be other oriented more so than Jessa, Marnie or even Shoshona. As I said before, she is the glue that keeps all her friends together and seems to be the most outwardly supportive. Her feeling seems more extroverted than introverted, in that way. I just don't see why everyone is saying Fi.
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'vomiting feelings' is Fi... hannah tends to be quite self-centered and unhealthy Fi-users are like that... she needs to be true to herself, go her own way, wants other people to bend to her etc etc. no way she isn't fi-dom
 
#27 · (Edited)
sarahbelle68 said:
'vomiting feelings' is Fi...
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No it isn't. Fi is much more likely to keep their feelings inside and internalize them. Fe is the function that is more inclined to speak to others and emotionally vomit all over people.

hannah tends to be quite self-centered and unhealthy Fi-users are like that... she needs to be true to herself, go her own way, wants other people to bend to her etc etc. no way she isn't fi-dom
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Well all of the girls on this show are selfish and mean spirited. It's more important to look at the context of why they are acting the way they do and what motivates them.

Hannah likes to position herself as being the "right" one and seems to enforce a standard where she tries to look better than everyone else or have the high ground. Look at her season conflict with Marnie -- Hannah is very interested in martyring herself and establishing an image of being the "best friend", she values herself in relation to other people and defines herself by who she is to other people: Adam's girlfriend, Marnie's best friend, the center of the group, Her parents to nurture her, etc. The point is that she needs other people to see her as being a good person or a worthy person or a person other people can care about. Very Fe like.

She also doesn't have a strong understanding of what she actually wants, see that entire situation with Adam in the first season. Not knowing what a person wants is usually indicative of an inferior subjective judging function. Fi would know what it needs and what it wants, since it's constantly referencing itself it would know what it wants. Hannah often has no clue. That seems intensely Fe, just as she is the "heart" of her core group and she is the person everything revolves around. She keeps all of the other girls connected. She goes on trips with them, she uses her experiences with other people to let her guide her writing. Letting other people punch her in the chest, so that she will have something to write about also sends the impression that she needs other peoples feelings to make her feel something. Again Fe.

I don't see why Hannah couldn't be an INTP or an ENTP. The writing of Girls, seems heavily Ti focused. Jessa and Marnie are the clearer cute Fi users. They are off on their own all the time, Hannah is always revolving around other characters.
 
#29 ·
Arrow said:
No it isn't. Fi is much more likely to keep their feelings inside and internalize them. Fe is the function that is more inclined to speak to others and emotionally vomit all over people.



Well all of the girls on this show are selfish and mean spirited. It's more important to look at the context of why they are acting the way they do and what motivates them.

Hannah likes to position herself as being the "right" one and seems to enforce a standard where she tries to look better than everyone else or have the high ground. Look at her season conflict with Marnie -- Hannah is very interested in martyring herself and establishing an image of being the "best friend", she values herself in relation to other people and defines herself by who she is to other people: Adam's girlfriend, Marnie's best friend, the center of the group, Her parents to nurture her, etc. The point is that she needs other people to see her as being a good person or a worthy person or a person other people can care about. Very Fe like.

She also doesn't have a strong understanding of what she actually wants, see that entire situation with Adam in the first season. Not knowing what a person wants is usually indicative of an inferior subjective judging function. Fi would know what it needs and what it wants, since it's constantly referencing itself it would know what it wants. Hannah often has no clue. That seems intensely Fe, just as she is the "heart" of her core group and she is the person everything revolves around. She keeps all of the other girls connected. She goes on trips with them, she uses her experiences with other people to let her guide her writing. Letting other people punch her in the chest, so that she will have something to write about also sends the impression that she needs other peoples feelings to make her feel something. Again Fe.

I don't see why Hannah couldn't be an INTP or an ENTP. The writing of Girls, seems heavily Ti focused. Jessa and Marnie are the clearer cute Fi users. They are off on their own all the time, Hannah is always revolving around other characters.
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as an INFP... i definitely vomit my feelings. the thing with Fi is that often feelings are kept in until they burst out in a one-way stream. this is why INFJs will often complain that INFPs can talk too much about themselves in deep conversations + be selfish in that way.

LOL you seem VERY confused about what Ti is.
 
#30 · (Edited)
sarahbelle68 said:
LOL you seem VERY confused about what Ti is.
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I don't see how you came to that conclusion. Call it Ti or inferior Fe, but the verdict is the same. The lens of the show is heavily influenced by an awkward, unlikable quality that aims to show each of the individual characters in an unflattering light, to offer "realism" and "truth" in a rather misanthropic way -- those qualities are usually seen as the darker side of the Ti/Fe judgement scale.

Honestly, what you are saying sounds like inferior feeling in general. Not feeling in Fi dominant types. Bursts of emotions and yelling your feelings at other people is likely a marker of inferior feeling.
 
#31 ·
Ok, so this was something I was playing around with last week, but chickened out. For Hannah, I definitely think she's an FP, the Fi is shown through her need for an authentic identity (quitting her job when it didn't align with her image of herself, and more importantly, to make a display of it), and her need to speak her mind when anyone speaks against her personal values. I also think her Fi was nicely contrasted with Mimi-Rose's Fe in the episode last week. However, I've been questioning whether or not she's an Se user. I don't think she's an INFP, because she is way too impulsive and she loves picking "intellectual" fights with people and is not afraid of conflict. I think Se because she is in the moment impulsive, like in this weeks episode where she instantly decided to go with a student to get a piercing between classes, or ditching on her graduate program. NFPs are known for their difficulty with making decisions, and although Ne is impulsive (especially ENXPs), they would at least take the time to determine whether there were better actions or ideas to take. Hannah though, seems to jump at any opportunity, be it a new job, drugs, a party, going to grad school, leaving grad school, or taking one of your students to get a piercing, she's never stopping to suggest a better idea (even if it's crazier). Finally, what originally made me think Se for her was her writing when she was at grad school. I can't really remember if we've had other large portions of her writing in earlier seasons, but I thought the story she read to her class was very sensory. It was graphic, descriptive, and focused on one scene, and the reactions from the class was that she was a bratty exhibitionist. It reminded me a lot of one of my ex's writing who was ESTP. Anywho, I can possibly see her as an ENFP, but I'm throwing SFP out there, and I could see her argued as either ESFP or ISFP, but INFP is seeming less likely to me. I still see Lena as an NFP, so I think some of that might seep in to Hannah's character, but maybe Hannah is her Se alter ego. Thoughts?
 
#32 · (Edited)
I think Hannah might be ENP of some sort. She goes off a lot on tangents and seems to be obsessed with ideas and engaging in multiple perspectives. She always talking and always engaging in things. Always readily accepting information. She's interested in a lot of variety, things that are different or experiences that are odd and does these things in order to help her write. Recreational drug use to have something to write about. Asking her boyfriend to punch her in the chest so she can try and detail the experience in her writings, etc.

I see some inferior Si markers in the second and third seasons, specifically when she has her breakdown over her OCD and isn't able to write anything in regards to her deadline. She folds into herself and just lounges in her apartment doing nothing for days. She is always afraid of her life stagnating and being stuck in the same place while her friends move forward without her. She ends up despairing a lot when she thinks nothing will change for her -- this happens when she loses her book deal. She goes threw a lot of periods of inactivity, and going threw the motions. That's classic inferior Si.

I don't think she is introverted, she seems externally focused and seems to need to engage in the outer world, if not with her friends, then with her boyfriend, her career or in needing to meet other people to bounce ideas off of and help her create her work. I'm thinking about the road trip they take in the third season where she says that the road trip isn't inspiring for her, and then Adam makes her go hiking for inspiration. She likes the idea of things more than actually doing them. I'm calling her out as an extrovert. Lots of outer focus and needing to engage in the world to feel fulfilled. I was thinking earlier that her being the center piece of her friends, was Fe -- but I guess it could be Ne too. Ne loves more of everything.

Mimi Rose -- is a Ni, Fe and Ti user. Some kind of NFJ, the way she breaks Hannah down and is able to understand all of her problems and insecurities, seems like some very powerful insight. Maybe this was done for plot purposes to get more insight into Hannah, but she really seems to understand everything that is going on beneath the surface with her. The way she deals with her abortion seems Ti like too. She doesn't see the emotional ramification of things, she just sees a problem that needs to be solved. Very detached. She likes to build relationships with strangers, help people solve their issues and learns everyone's names and likes making genuine connections. I would say she is probably an INFJ.
 
#34 ·
Hannah is definitely xNFP borderline I/E Lena herself is ENFP.
I don't see Adam as a sensor at all - remember his speech to Marnie about his ex? I really get a xNTx vibe from him, anyone else see a INTJ?
Marnie- ESTJ
Shosh - ESFJ
Jessa - also can't see sensor - a Intuitive that try hides behind a Sensor facade, I'm thinking INTJ?
Ray - ENTP hands down
Charlie - INFJ
Desi - ENFJ (a douchey one at that though)
 
#35 ·
I think Adam is a pretty firm Ti user, you see a lot of inferior Fe in him concerning Hannah in the first and third seasons -- and it's aggravated a lot with Mimi-Rose to over the abortion. There are multiple times in the show where Adam gets fed up with Hannah's selfishness, and her lack of empathy for other people and he's upset with her for it. I would say ISTP, I don't see much Ne in him. He's a pretty one thing at a time kind of guy, and can't seem to juggle multiple things on his plate at once -- he needs to compartmentalize Hannah and the play during the third season and can't deal with both. He says that Hannah is emotionally effecting his ability to do the play, and that strikes me as inferior Fe. Can't deal with others emotions messing with his head, but still feels an intense need to connect himself to others hence the friendship he cultivates with Jessa while Hannah is gone.

I think Jessa is a Ne user of some sort, just because I can't see any Ni in her at all. I would say she's some kind of ENP.

Hannah's so hard to type because she's kind of all over the place, but I think EFP makes the most sense for her.
 
#37 ·
Hannah - INFP
Shosh - ESFJ or ESTJ
Jessa - like... i don't know, maybe ISFP, INFJ or ENFP???? really don't know
Marnie - so hard, she's changing like all the time. the episode where they all where at the beach house, she was so ESFJ. But sometime she's ENFJ and sometime even ESTJ.
Ray - ENTJ
Adam - ISTP
Desi - dont really know but i think marnie and him and in some kind of supervision/beneficiary kind of relationship. so maybe ISFP?
Elijah - like, maybe ENFP??? or ENTP. or ESTP, he's awesome.
I have no opinion in Charlie's personality type whatsoever it was a long time ago a saw the first and second season!
 
#38 ·
Anyone watching the new season?

I'm convinced Jessa a 'N' type, In the earlier season's she had that reckless 'S' facade she hid under - especially with her problem with her addiction, IMO in the latest season she seems to be the only one with perspective. I could pin her as a INFJ or ENFP.

Adam I think is a ISTP or a INTP - he has quite abit of aloofness which is hard to pin down what type he is.

Hannah definitely ENFP/INFP borderline - has the self awareness of a brick at times (still love her though)

Ray -ENTP - Screams Ne

Shosh: ESFJ

Marnie: ESTJ

Desi: ISFP, INFP (very emotional)

Elijah: ENFP maybe ENTP or ESFP
 
#39 ·
Okay, hold up a minute.

How can everyone here think Shoshanna has extraverted feeling?

She is *the* most obvious INFP I have seen.

People saying she is Te-dom—look, she is in her grip! INFPs turn into ball-busters when they are in their grip state.

Anyone here watch Vinyl? Juno Temple is an INFP in real life and the character she plays, Jamie Vine, is ultra-INFP also.

Compare Shoshanna with Jamie Vine from Vinyl and you'll find they are extremely similar characters. Also, Peggy from Mad Men.

All of these characters can appear Te-dom when they are in their grip state. Normally soft spoken, great listeners, timid, shy etc, when they are in their grip they say things like "Don't tell or I'll kick you in the stomach" (a line from Jamie Vine on Vinyl).

Meanwhile, Hannah and Lena Dunham in real life are definitely not Fi. Not by a long stretch. Lena Dunham's feeling is so outward-oriented, it latches on to other peoples' feelings immediately, rather than checking with oneself.

Here is a great way to tell the difference in Fi and Fe. If you see a kid throwing a temper tantrum and people are annoyed, the Fe would feel sorry for the adults and wish the kid was better disciplined. Fi will feel sorry for the kid.
 
#40 ·
I don't really know, sometimes I got the feeling they were really different facets of one person. And it has been quite some time since I saw it and I don't know enough about types to type others really, but I'll try just for fun:

Hannah: In some ways I really relate to her, and just now when picturegoogling her it almost felt like I was looking at pictures of myself(and I am infp), but in other ways she feels so alien to me. I don't really get the feeling she is introverted. And about Fi, she does seem concerned with what she likes and not, but not as much what is right and not? there seems to be little guilt in her, which I associate with Fi. But perhaps she's just young and egocentric. Possibly ENFP.

Jessa: I think she could be infp, possibly isfp or infj. Trying to be cooler and more outgoing but needing drugs to do so, with an emptiness she doesn't know how to fill. She and Hannah seem to understand each other well.

Marnie: don't know really, ESFJ? ESFP? she does seem peopleoriented, and orderly, but she doesn't seem to know how to melt in with a group the way Fe-people tend to, she's usuall a bit off.

Shoshanna: at first I didn't think she felt like a person really, more like some cartoon-figure, I don't know... Ni perhaps, she seems to have tinted her lens quite different from how most people see the world often. So INFJ/ENFJ. (or some Ni-Fi-Te hybrid)

Adam: He seems a bit of everything almost. Perhaps that is the actor in him? trying on different personalities and becoming them? because it doesn't strike me as a mask, he feels authentic. ISFP/INFP/INTJ/ENTJ/ESFP? I think ISFP or INTJ feels most right if I have to choose.
 
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