가족 사랑을 예술로 승화시킨 화가 이중섭의 성격유형 - MBTI이론의 관점으로 - = Personality Type Analysis by Lee Jung-Seob, an Artist who sublimated Family Love to Art - Focused on the MBTI Theory -

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This study would investigate the personality type of Lee Jung-Seob, a star-crossed artist of genius who sublimated the love of family to art analyzing his life from the MBTI theory perspective to help an in-depth understanding of his world of art and the impacts of the personality type on the growth and development of his personality type.
For this purpose, this study analyzed through Choi Yeol’s “Lee Jung-Seob’s critical biography” and “Lee Jung-Seob’s Letter”and drew the following results for Lee Jung-Seob’s personality type.
First, his personality type is INFP, which is quiet and silent, has a warm heart, and pursues an ideal.
Second, his dominant function is introverted feeling (Fi), and his sub-function is extroverted intuition (Ne). He did artist activities with the belief that love and art are one. Even when he was away from his family, he conveyed his warm heart with letters to his family members and delivered messages of hope so that they would not be in despair with positiveness that turns tragedy into comedy.
Third, his tertiary function is sensation (S), and his inferior function is extroverted thinking (Te). With the manifestation of these functions, extreme stress, such as frustration due to the loss of or separation from important human relations, the sense of loss due to negative responses to and criticisms of him, and despair due to evaluations going against his artistic values, made his functions in the unconscious area overwhelm his dominant function and sub-function. Due to this stress, Lee Jung-Seob punished himself by refusing to eat and harming himself, judging that he was incompetent, and worried his family very much by cutting his contact with them by aggressive behaviors. In addition, he encountered a tragic outcome that he ended his life lonesomely at a hospital due to his abnormal behaviors (neurasthenic neurosis).
Thus, this study has significance in that it provides a new paradigm for discovering the base of personality in understanding Lee Jung-Seob’s life and works. Based on this, it can be suggested that it is necessary to counsel to understand the development of personality types of individuals and to have a perspective of considering the importance of family and human relations. Based on these research results, the limitations of this study and suggestions for follow-up studies were included in the discussion.