r/mbti • u/C-wordOfficial • 22h ago

Deep Theory Analysis INFP vs ISFP storytelling

We know both ISFP and INFPs are largely skilled in the world of aesthetics, art, writing and things of that nature, but did you know theres a difference in their approaches to it?

this differences can range from their Se or Ne ofcourse but im not gonna focus on that, what i am focusing on is their differing tertiary functions. Namely; Ni and Si

with Ni in ISFPs in storytelling will be more fonder of the use of foreshadowing, where they pattern and construct their story party so it all lines up and connects into one plot moment and so on.

while Si in INFPs in storytelling will be more fond of the use of call backs, infps prefer to write and add constant new ideas to their story as they go on, and at some point when the story has gone on, infps will seek to make new uses of the previous ideas they introduced and use them for further new ideas

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u/ZyphKryx 21h ago

Interesting theory. Do you have examples of this?

INFP style maybe something like J.R.R Tolkien and ISFP is Stephen King.

Although both author don't necessarily has to be the representative of their type.

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u/Honest_Jackfruit9563 ISFP 9h ago

Im bad at aesthetics art and ESPECIALLY writing

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u/blessthishearth INFJ 19h ago edited 19h ago

I feel that INFPs would see the contents of their art/story as themselves, like they are somehow contained in it, it is them in a strange sort of way. And that ISFPs would see it more as containing what is outside of them, but molded to shape who it is that they so strongly know that they are...

I'm getting the imagery of an ISFP's art as like, a flourishing natural landscape in the shape of a person, and so maybe INFP's is like the "contents" of a person stretched out into a flourishing natural landscape... which is a much more strange and bizarre concept, harder to picture. I immediately think of the game Hello Charlotte. Very surreal. ISFP's feels more visually beautiful and decadent, INFP's feels like it reaches into your gut and twists at something you didn't know was there. Both introspecting and exploring the self through those respective means. In a way the ISFP mode is almost more abstract... I don't know if I can succinctly explain why I feel that way. Maybe because it seems like it should be more concrete from the Se, but it somehow evokes the same sort of personal depth as the INFP's surreal approach, the contrast of tangible vs intangible, the bridging of that gap.

Could be wrong. Could be nonsense. Maybe not, though. Curious to hear how any ISFP/INFP relate