THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STEAMPUNK: Personality Types and Temperaments and Archetypes, oh my!

[Balogun Ojetade]

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STEAMPUNK
Personality Types and Temperaments and Archetypes, oh my!

 
Speculative fiction in general – and Steampunk in particular – offers us something different: a sense that the world is larger and more filled with possibility than we might be able to imagine; a sense that increasing the opportunities of other people’s lives does not mean diminishing our own.

Steampunk is a reminder that our vision is bigger than our histories; that by looking back at yesterday and learning from it, a better tomorrow is still an option.

Most of us believe we discovered Steampunk at random. We loved the genre before it was called Steampunk and we kind of just stumbled into the Steampunk movement.

I beg to differ.

All actions follow a process – Perception à Thought à Impulse à Action – thus all actions are purposeful…and anything with a purpose, or direction, can be predicted.

How could we know we would gravitate toward Steampunk? That we would write it? Read it? Wear it?

By knowing and understanding our Personality Type.

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[dave bartram]

Your logic is flawed. Purposeful does not equal predictable. Otherwise intention would always bear out in action, and it doesn't.

[Balogun Ojetade]

Thanks for your comment!

[Xeno Gilder]

I can honestly say that I never heard of, seen, or watched anything Steampunk before. Which is to say nothing labeled as such, the opinion that something is similiar to Steampunk doesnt mean that it is.  The closest thing I can think of was seeing 'The City of Lost Children' But I sought that out becuase I collect films based or influenced on Gnosticism. So I was not coming at it as being Steampunk, in the least bit.

Nor do I have the desire to wear goggles. :)

I just think its an interesting genre to try and write in.

 

[Balogun Ojetade]

I enjoy writing in it as well!

[Ray Dean]

I don't know how it is possible for you to be here and have not heard of something Steampunk. One begins to wonder if you are just pulling the collective leg. But I am not asking a question, just wondering aloud to myself about yet another odd statement...

[Ray Dean]

That is a very interesting take on building characters... I'm a little more organic in my characters... I do tend to start with names though... Either the sound of them give me a hint at their character... Or the meaning of a name may point me in a direction... Very interesting blog post

[Xeno Gilder]

Actually its pretty easy to explain. I was on the Internet, saw the word Steampunk, clicked on the link, read up on it, I like to write stories, its an interesting genre, I would like to write something which uses it as an influence.

Is it reqiured that you be a life long devotee who dresses in Steampunk garb 24/7, just to write stories based on it?

 

[Ray Dean]

again, I believe you are attributing statements to me that I didn't make... what's with the dressing question?  Would appreciate it if you wouldn't do that...

[Xeno Gilder]

Wasn't aware that I had attributed it to anyone, sorry if it came off that way.

But, I certainly did not waste the last month studying and making notes every possible chance, compiling a large cache of notes just to pull some sort of prank, I'm not trying to pull anyone's leg.

While anyone can certainly question my knowledge of the steampunk genre, no one can question my sincerity to write in genres that I find interesting.

I wouldn't mind writing some Star Trek stuff, but I don't want to learn Klingon.

As this was one of the questions of this thread

How could we know we would gravitate toward Steampunk? That we would write it? Read it? Wear it?

I gravitated toward it when I saw this