INTP

The INTP personality type is one of the 16 personality types described by Isabel Briggs-Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs, and stands for Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Perceiving.

Jung's Analysis
Carl Jung had first categorized his subjects as leading from one of four separate axioms of being: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition, and paired this with their preference for either Extroversion or Introversion.

In the case of both the INTP and ISTP, Jung would have characterized this type as having dominant Introverted Thinking (Ti), which is primarily characterized by a desire to categorize elements of the world to create a complete, subjective understanding of them. Their repressed Extraverted Feeling (Fe) may sometimes cause the INTP to have trouble figuring out what others expect from them emotionally, particularly when under stress.

Personality Basics
INTPs are primarily characterized as systematizing, creative, theoretical and pensive. As such, many very influential natural scientists are INTPs. The type is given nicknames like 'The Architect' (Truity), 'The Logician' (16personalities) and are called 'abstract-minded systems analysts' by IDRlabs.

Famous INTPs
Fictional
 * Albert Einstein
 * Mike Stoklasa
 * Rowan Atkinson
 * Immanuel Kant
 * Richard Dawkins
 * Hannah Arendt
 * Marie Curie
 * Adam Smith
 * René Descartes
 * Jimmy Wales
 * Lawrence Krauss
 * David Cronenberg
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Galileo Galilei
 * Bret McKenzie
 * Neo (The Matrix)
 * Jay Sherman (The Critic)
 * Garfield The Cat