I'm thinking now that your personality somehow motivates your interpretation. How do you interpret that? Is it accurate? Just lovely-whacky? Something to chew on? Life changing?
Well, if you know me, I've been chewing on it as I've been thinking about what motivates translation, and feminisms, and rhetorics. And Wayne Leman, with his significant hypothesis, asked some of us not too long ago to declare our personality with reference to Bible translations. Isn't there something to temperament? Yeah, I know, Aristotle got in on this some time back, the personality question thing. But then there's the good work of Isabel Briggs Meyers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. And building on that is Marilyn M. Bates and David Keirsey.
So what do you think? Is it 1) pigeon-hole-able accurate? 2) lovely-whacky enough? 3) Hmmmm? 4) World rocking?
Here's a little bit of (un)charted (un)pigeonholing as we ski barefooted. (And really what do you think?)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| *motives! | Get it right | Free it up | Turn it around | Make it meaningful |
| Steiner difficulties | Epiphenomenal | Tactical | Modal | Ontological |
| Quinn strategies | Telling | Forcing | Negotiating | Changing |
| Pike perspectives | Particle | Wave | Field | person /logic |
| Jesus's parable | by.the.wayside | rock/sun.shock | weed.choked | die.to.multiply |
| Gorgias's Helen | by gods' decree | by force | by persuasion | by love |
| *wordplay 1 | proposition | imposition | transposition | a(p)position |
| *wordplay 2 | describe | prescribe | transcribe | in(ter)scribe |
| *wordplay 3 | head/phallus | gut/chest/muscle | heart/liver | spirit/womb/seed |
| *wordplay 4 | noun | verb.intransitive | verb.transitive | verb.linking/BE |
| Plato -340BCE | Guardian | Artisan | Scientist | Philosopher |
| Aristotle -325 | Proprietary | Hedonic | Dialectical | Ethical |
| Galen 200 | Phlegmatic | Sanguine | Choleric | Melancholic |
| Adickes 1907AD | Traditional | Innovative | Agnostic | Dogmatic |
| Spränger 1914 | Economic | Esthetic | Theoretical | Religious |
| Kretschmer 1921 | Depressive | Hypomanic | Anesthetic | Hyperesthetic |
| Fromm 1947 | Receptive | Exploiting | Marketing | Hoarding |
| Myers, Briggs | SJ | SP | NT | NF |
| symbolic animals | beaver | fox | owl | dolphin |
| temperament | responsible stabalizer | adventurous troubleshooter | curious visionary | harmonious catalyst |
| Keirsey 1978 | Protectors | Creators | Intellectuals | Visionaries |
| Keirsey 1978 | Epimethean | Dionysian | Promethean | Apollonian |
| Keirsey 1987 | Guardians | Artisans | Rationals | Idealists |
| PTypes 2001 | Traditionalist | Hedonist | Rationalist | Idealist |
| PTypes 2004 | Depressive | Hypomanic | Anesthetic | Hyperesthetic |
| LTT orientation | solution | activity | theory | meaning |
3 comments:
I didn't get the chart the first time, mainly because I didn't have the time to sit and process it. Today I came back with a few more minutes, and I almost laughed out loud, and I'm still smiling. My "pigeonholed" column keeps repeating the word "depressive" so many times, and it fit my mood of the week so absolutely perfectly that I think it just shoved me out of the mood (for the moment at least--Perhaps they should have the word "fickle" on there!)
In any case, this is a fun compilation and I loved seeing it all brought together like this. Thanks for the smile.
Actually, now that I look again, it is only listed two times--I must have been scanning it up and down simultaneously. I tend to read that way, but it doesn't work so great for charts...
Charts are so hard for me to get "right." Especially on the blog. But my question--the one I'm too often motivated by--tends to be "why." So, why is that? I dunno, but I do appreciate your comments always, Eclexia.
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