Vinayak Rao

I will be typing Vinayak Rao, who is the central character of Tumbbad (2018), a horror/fantasy movie. And as per my analysis, he comes closest to the ET(N) personality type for various reasons. Extraverted thinking - ET/Te (Principal Function & Attitude): A subject with extravert attitude orients towards the objective factor, the factor that comes from the object under conscious observation. While thinking is a judging function which judges the object through objective criteria of logic and conceptual connection, opposed to values/feeling. And principal thinking with extraverted attitude forms the personality which generally orients towards the object's logical properties. Applying this to Vinayak Rao, it is quite evident from the starting of the story how his cunningness comes from exploiting objective rules. He approached the governor's grandmother after breaking promise to his mother to not return to Tumbbad, and carefully took note of all the rules and rituals when stealing gold coins of Hastar in each iteration. And he constantly devises new plans to increase the efficiency of his operations through physical training, and expecting the same from his son. His constant conscious orientation remains towards how he can increase the output. This is objective in nature as they are concerned with the object and its evident rules, not subjective interpretations. Intuition - N (Auxiliary Function): Intuition is a function concerned with perception of potential and possibilities, opposed to raw sensation. And auxiliary function aids the extraverted function without opposing it. So one of its use boils down to situations where principal function faces blockage or insufficient data. Same we see with him throughout the movie. He perceives how situation might develop in future without conscious awareness. For example, when the businessman constantly visits his home and talks to his wife to know the source of his wealth (Hastar's nest), he perceives that its a threat to his secret wealth. Another strong example would be about the climax where Vinayak's son brings multiple wheat dolls and confusion arises about how suddenly multiple Hastars appeared. By connecting the number of dolls to number of Hastars. One special hint is his clear awareness that his endless greed is a curse, and how future might be dissatisfactory. But his orientation to ET keeps him engaged with finding ways to exploit rules to serve his greed. Introverted Feeling - IF (Inferior Function & Attitude): Introverted attitude is oriented towards the subjective factor, the contents originating from the subject's psyche. Feeling is a function concerned with judging through values, opposed to the logical relations and concepts. And inferior function is the unconsciously suppressed function by principal function. This is the immature function and is often seen as a temptation or sudden breakdown which is recovered soon. Together, introversion and feeling form a function which is oriented towards the subjective factor of values. And Vinayak is clearly shown lacking it, or unknowingly suppressing it in order to let his ET function. For example, his brother died in childhood after falling from high ground. After his mother returns sobbing that his brother couldn't survive, he instead seems more concerned with where the treasure is, and tries convincing his mother of different torture methods on governor's grandmother to provide them the location of treasure. Also he seems highly disconnected from his own values, including sympathy towards his mother, his wife, and also his son. His ruthless efficiency demands suppressing his personal feelings towards his own family members. Only one scene is seen in entire movie where he is seen being overwhelmed with emotions, remembering his mother who believed "a single gold coin would be enough to live a life", crying in front of his son for a brief period. This is what Jung explained as introversion taking over the person after prolonged extraverted functioning, but for a brief period. Counter-argument against popular type ES(T): Discussion about Vinayak Rao's type is quite unpopular and undeveloped for now, but the most arguments would be about ES(T), or equivalent ESTP in MBTI. And reasons given would be "physically taking risks" or greed being associated with "Entrepreneur" archetype. However, Jung never described ES with physical exposure to harm. ES is associated with objective factor of sensation, where the sensory qualities of an object are considered with lower influence of how it feels to the subject from his point of view. And Vinayak Rao was hardly oriented towards something that is sensory in nature. His continuous meticulous planning and use of rules for exploitation shows thinking (particularly ET), while him being lost in latent developments and implications is intuition (principal thinking + auxiliary intuition). In sensory Vinayak Rao we would have instead seen how attentive he is to the sensory nature of Goddess womb, being influenced from sensation. But there was no related affinity for preference for so. This clearly establishes that he comes closest to ET(N) personality and not ES(T) type.