You mentioned, "No direction home". Do you remember that, even in that DVD, he talked about the "identity" thing? He said that he felt he had no true connection with his family or where he came from... like he should have been born into a different family (again... name change... he said he felt no roots...). ISFjs are some of the most confident with their identies, whereas ENTps are constantly trying to change/find it.

This goes along with the "Ten Bob Dylans" that I mentioned before; always finding a new style. ISFjs like finding something, and sticking with it. They wish that they could freeze time and keep things as is.

Also, there was more than one person on that DVD who said Dylan gave the apperance of an "actor" when they met him. He would imitate people's voices, styles, mannerisms, etc... much like Marlon Brando... Brando was said to imitate people he just met at a party to entertain them. Dylan, much like Brando, was an actor.

But it doesn't stop there, as it ties in with his ever changing music, enviorments, etc... This is what Carl Jung wrote of the Extraverted Intuitive type:

This attitude has immense dangers -- all too easily the intuitive may squander his life. He spends himself animating men and things, spreading around him an abundance of life -- a life, however, which others live, not he. Were he able to rest with the actual thing, he would gather the fruit of his labours; yet all too soon must he be running after some fresh possibility, quitting his newly planted field, while others reap the harvest. In the end he goes empty away. But when the intuitive lets things reach such a pitch, he also has the unconscious against him. The unconscious of the intuitive has a certain similarity with that of the sensation-type. Thinking and feeling, being relatively repressed, produce infantile and archaic thoughts and feelings in the unconscious, which may be compared [p. 467] with those of the countertype. They likewise come to the surface in the form of intensive projections, and are just as absurd as those of the sensation-type, only to my mind they lack the other's mystical character; they are chiefly concerned with quasi-actual things, in the nature of sexual, financial, and other hazards, as, for instance, suspicions of approaching illness. This difference appears to be due to a repression of the sensations of actual things. These latter usually command attention in the shape of a sudden entanglement with a most unsuitable woman, or, in the case of a woman, with a thoroughly unsuitable man; and this is simply the result of their unwitting contact with the sphere of archaic sensations. But its consequence is an unconsciously compelling tie to an object of incontestable futility. Such an event is already a compulsive symptom, which is also thoroughly characteristic of this type. In common with the sensation-type, he claims a similar freedom and exemption from all restraint, since he suffers no submission of his decisions to rational judgment, relying entirely upon the perception of chance, possibilities. He rids himself of the restrictions of reason, only to fall a victim to unconscious neurotic compulsions in the form of oversubtle, negative reasoning, hair-splitting dialectics, and a compulsive tie to the sensation of the object. His conscious attitude, both to the sensation and the sensed object, is one of sovereign superiority and disregard. Not that he means to be inconsiderate or superior -- he simply does not see the object that everyone else sees; his oblivion is similar to that of the sensation-type -- only, with the latter, the soul of the object is missed. For this oblivion the object sooner or later takes revenge in the form of hypochondriacal, compulsive ideas, phobias, and every imaginable kind of absurd bodily sensation. [p. 468]
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jung/types.htm

Also, do you remember that, when in college, he never went to class? ISFjs are far more responsible than that. Work must come before play. Dylan was up all night "jamming". Another interesting tidbit was that he stole records and such from people like Woody Guthrie. Are ISFjs prone to break the rules? I would suggest not.


BTW, this sounds ISFj to you?

Q: When do you tend to do the most writing? When you're on tour or when you're home for a few weeks?

BOB: I don't know. Some things just come to me in dreams. But I can write a bunch of stuff down after you leave . . . about, say, the way you are dressed. I look at people as ideas. I don't look at them as people. I'm talking about general observation. Whoever I see, I look at them as an idea -- what this person represents. That's the way I see life. I see life as a utilitarian thing. Then you strip things away until you get to the core of what's Important . . . in the larger scheme of things, the government is irrelevant. Everybody, everything can be bought and sold.
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Sounds like dominant intuition to me.



I guess we will have to agree to disagree.