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The Idealist (melancholic) Temperament
The Hyperesthetic Idealized Image

"Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic" (AdvisorTeam.com).
Motivations

The Idealist type prefers superiority and disprefers inferiority. The Idealist prefers:
• Superiority.
• Perfection.
• Meaning.
• Purpose.
• Acceptance.
• Approval.
• Altruism.
• Aesthetics.
• Accomplishment.
• Accuracy.
• Completion.
• Culmination.
• Faultlessness.
• Improvement.
• Intimacy.
• Self-actualization.
• Social justice.


David Keirsey reconfigured the typology created by Isabel Briggs Myers to a scheme of four groups of four types that corresponds to the classic four temperaments. In Please Understand Me (1984), he defined one group as the Idealist temperament:

Idealists want to search for Self, to become themselves, to have a goal, a purpose in life, to be self-actualized, to be and become real, to be what they are meant to be and to have an identity which is uniquely theirs, to become self-actualized into a perfect whole and to have an identity which is perfectly unique, to have meaning, to have their significance appreciated, or at the very least, recognized as existing, to have integrity, that is unity, with no facade, no mask, no pretense, no sham, no playing of roles, to be genuine, to communicate authentically, to be in harmony with the inner experiences of self, to avoid a life of bad faith, to live a life of significance, making a difference in the world, to experience life as a drama, to be sensitive to the subtle gestures and metaphoric behavior in relationships, to help others become kinder, warmer, and more loving human beings, to reform the world, to romanticize their experiences, their lives, and the experiences and lives of others (Keirsey, 1984, pp. 57-66; cf., Heineman (NF)).


The pathological representation of the Idealist temperament type is the Hyperesthetic Personality.

Areas of interest
• Acting
• Arts & Humanities
• Education
• Horror
• Idealism
• Issues and Causes
• Journalism
• Languages
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Mental_Health
• Music
• Mystery
• Mysticism
• Mythology and Folklore
• New Age
• Personal Growth
• Philanthropy
• Religion and Spirituality
• Social Science
• Teaching
• Theater
• Theology
• Writing