I'll make a case for IXTp, although I admit, I'm not 100% convinced myself, and am open to all suggestions... Regardless, re: Dylan, I believe it's pretty evident that we can eliminate all rational types from consideration.


In the mid-70s, Dylan, (at around the time of the Rolling Thunder Review tour w/ The Band and Baez,) for whatever reason, believed that his songwriting abilities were waning... At that time--and he writes in his book, Chronicles, for the reason that he felt 'good for nothin,' he indulged in wild sensory excesses, e.g. drugs, women, anything to get his mind off the fact that he couldn't write songs as he used to, the kind that he wanted to write.

This is consistent with Wikisocion's description of creative Te:
"The individual works with the goal of producing dynamic objects and/or conditions. **in Dylan's case, songs, tours, albums** These objects may be physical or mental so long as they are in motion. **In this case, the 'objects-in-motion' would be songs/albums... An aside: Dylan is renowned for re-arranging his old songs in unexpected ways, and thus they're constantly in motion** If conditions do not allow this function to work, the individual will become bored and increasingly engage in base function activities in complete disregard of the objective facts suggesting otherwise action. ** E.g. teriods in the 70s and 80s when he "couldn't write," and this indulged in his (presumed) base function, Si**

In the following interview, @ about 2:46 Bob Dylan--with a typical Te expression on his face--one that should be familiar to anyone who is/knows a IXTp, (not necessarily the "INTps" on this forum lol)--talks about how "you can't do something forever, but I did it once.... I can do other things now, but I can't do that."

On his name change @ 5:50: "you call yourself what you wanna call yourself. This is the land of the free."

@8:20 "My stuff was songs; they were not sermons... If you examine the stuff in there, you won't find anything that says I'm the spokesman for anybody or anything really..." Bradley: "But they saw you [as spokesman for the generation]!" Dylan: " They must not have heard the songs."



I agree w/ Logos... IP temperament is very clear... I don't think it takes much analysis to eliminate INFp though, i.e. no Beta values... He seems receptive to Fi.) ISFp, ISTp, and INTp are the choices.