How many INFPs are there in the world? I guess there are more than we think...
For example, Mozart, Sissi, Nietzsche, Van Gogh, you and me...
INFPs are philosophical, With a tragic artistic atmosphere, it is incompatible with this world.
Some people say that INFP is not a born MBTI personality, but an acquired traumatic personality. Who knows? This question is like which came first, the chicken or the egg. It is impossible to answer. However, one thing is certain, that is, INFP's sensory channels are extremely sharp and the connections between the senses are very active. This is destined to make INFP artistic and creative, and also destined to be able to perceive more pain.
Mozart in the play only wears one outfit throughout the whole process - a white modern outfit - from inside to outside, from top to bottom, it is all white. This setting allows us to see a Mozart who breaks the rules, has a pure heart, and pursues his true self all the way. This is also the inner portrayal of INFPs. The protagonist has three names in his heart: Amadeus, Wolfgang, and Mozart. (Mozart's full name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) The young genius Amadeus, the young and unruly Wolfgang, and the world-loved Mozart.
This child prodigy was taken by his father to perform for various princes and nobles at the age of 6. He was sought after by the upper class and was put on an exquisite headgear. From then on, he solidified and knelt down to write music. , can’t play and doesn’t even raise his head.
The 6-year-old Amadeus is like a child laborer. His father cultivates him, packages him, and promotes him. The whole family is counting on this "genius child" to bring endless wealth and honor to the family. His father hoped that Amadeus would never grow up, so that he would never become mediocre. When Wolfgang grew up to be an unruly young man, his father told him that your talent has come to an end and you should succumb to authority, rules and fate.
His father emphasized over and over again that he loved Wolfgang the most in the world. Wolfgang was so simple, impulsive and easily deceived. He always protected him and taught him, but Wolfgang always disappointed him. , contradicted the archbishop, lost his job, was defrauded of all his money, married the daughter of a poor man, and wrote a poor opera.
Mozart shouted to his father from the bottom of his heart several times, "Why can't you love me for who I am?!" Unfortunately, his father did not recognize and accept his true self until his death.
I am afraid that it is difficult for INFPs themselves to accept their true appearance, because they seem so emotional and unreliable. They don't know how to get along with themselves, nor how to get along with their loved ones. They are easily kidnapped by emotions and by everyone. I believe that Mozart in the play loves Constanze so much that he is willing to bear the burden of her entire bad family and bear a large debt for her. But he was also a child who didn't know how to get along with her. He was lost in bars and casinos for a while, and immersed in his own music world.
INFP has been pursuing the real life and the real self all his life, but what is the real life and what is the real self? He is the gifted but imprisoned Amadeus; he is the unruly, rebellious and passionate Wolfgang; he is also the Mozart who receives flowers and applause and is admired by the world.
Mozart asks in the play, "How can I escape my own shadow?" Amadeus, a genius child who followed him all the way and could only lower his head to write music, became the shadow he wanted to get rid of most. Mozart in the play, throughout his life, was never able to get rid of this imprisoned genius child.
When he was dying, he knew that his time was short, and composing music consumed a lot of his energy. At this time, he was terminally ill. There was no longer enough blood flowing in his body for him to compose music on the sheet.
He lamented the sadness of his short life. He had sacrificed everything for music, his family, love and life. And when he wanted to continue to express his grief and indignation, begging the "genius child" to stop and begging him to experience real life, the "genius child" angrily inserted the pen into Mozart's heart...
Who can come? Redeem our souls?
In the play, the Baroness and Mozart’s mother are both symbols of great love. Mother sacrificed herself in order to grant Wolfgang's freedom. The Baroness, during the Amadeus period, advised her father that he was still a fragile child; during the Wolfgang period, she told his father to let Wolfgang go find the "gold in the stars" alone; when Mozart was sad and desperate, she once again appeared and sang "Gold on the Stars" for him
Maybe the reality that INFP wants to pursue is not far away and elsewhere, but INFP cannot see and face this reality. Just as Amadeus couldn't accept Wolfgang's dissolute behavior, Wolfgang asked Amadeus to raise his head and see real life. As Constanze said painfully, "All I see is you, and all you see is music and your freedom."
Darkness and light are inherently one, and the brightest place is the darkest place. We seek treasures from darkness and obtain energy from darkness. We need to learn to get along with our own shadow, we need to learn to see our lover, and we need to learn to trust ourselves and trust love. The talented Amadeus is real, the rebellious and unreasonable Wolfgang is real, and the applause-hungry Mozart is also real. There is light and darkness, this is the real self and real life.