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Dominant Type: Highly Varied; No repeated type dominates
Common Archetype: Highly Varied; No repeated archetype dominates
Moral Climate: Morally Conflicted; 50 average morality score
Control Climate: Reactive; 42 average control score

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guarded
lonely
adaptive
alienated
discerning

Betsy
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Taxi Driver
FM-BTD
MovieENFJIQ 118
Betsy
The Idealized Witness
A campaign worker whom Travis Bickle elevates into an angelic image of purity before he can encounter her as a person. Betsy is psychologically important because she reveals the violence of idealization: to Travis, she is less a woman than proof that something clean might still exist.
Core Drive
To be engaged by someone who can meet her intelligence and loneliness without turning her into a fantasy.
Trait Pattern
polishedperceptiveguarded
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Iris Steensma
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Taxi Driver
FM-IS
MovieESFPIQ 100
Iris Steensma
The Exploited Innocent
A child sex worker whom Travis turns into the object of a rescue fantasy, even as her own survival has already required performance, numbness, and adaptation. Iris Steensma is innocence under occupation by adult projection.
Core Drive
To be safe without having to fully understand or confess the harm being done to her.
Trait Pattern
youngguardedperformative
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Travis Bickle
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Taxi Driver
FM-TB
MovieISTPIQ 105
Travis Bickle
The Alienated Vigilante
A Vietnam veteran and night-shift cab driver moving through New York as if he is both witness and exile. Travis Bickle is consumed by insomnia, sexual confusion, moral disgust, and a desperate wish to locate purity in a world he experiences as contaminated. His personality is isolated, rigid, watchful, and increasingly organized around violent fantasy as a substitute for belonging.
Core Drive
To become purified and significant through one decisive act.
Trait Pattern
alienatedobsessivevigilant
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Taxi Driver

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Betsy

Iris Steensma

Travis Bickle