The Three Basic Patterns of the Human Character
From Chapter 44
The Characteristic Mood and the Basic character of the egoic individual In The First Three Stages Of Life Are Exhibited In Terms Of What I Call "Vital", "Peculiar", and "Solid" personality Patterns. These Patterns Correspond, Respectively, To Reactive (or ego-Preserving and ego-Dramatizing) Strategies Of Either A Characteristically vital (or "vitally"–and, Perhaps, or Sometimes, Even "Grossly"–physical) Kind Or A Characteristically emotional (or emotionally "peculiar", and, Perhaps, or Sometimes, Even Hysterical) Kind Or A Characteristically mental (or mentally "solid", or Strategically–and, Principally, By Means Of ego-Efforts That Exploit the conceptual mind–Invulnerable) Kind.
The Dominant Characteristics Of the "Vital" character Are Obsessive and Compulsive vital-physical self-Expression and The Chronic, Excessive, and Even Degenerative Dramatization Of bodily self-Indulgence. The "Vital" character Is Also Associated With Diminished (or Suppressed) emotional Capability (Often Expressed Via a One-Dimensional, Generally Invariable, and Superficially Positive emotional state), and it Is Generally Represented By Either mental Dullness Or A Chaotic (or Undisciplined) Display Of the conceptual (or intellectual) function.
The Dominant Characteristics Of the "Peculiar" character Are Excessively "Romantic" (or Even Sentimental) and Idealistic (or Un-Realistic) Expectations (That Are Inevitably Frustrated) and The Loss Of Balance Via Chronic emotional Hypersensitivity and The Dramatization Of Exaggerated "Mood Swings" (or The Tendency To Alternate Dramatically, Even Without Apparent cause, Between Very Positive and Very Negative or Depressed or Hysterical emotional states). The "Peculiar" character Is Also Associated With Diminished conceptual (or intellectual) Capability (Characterized By Mechanical or Superficial Application Of mind), and it Is Generally Represented By Either Suppressed Or Chaotically Displayed vital-physical functions (Characterized By vital weakness and nervous energy).
The Dominant Characteristics Of the "Solid" character Are Hyperactivity Of the conceptual mind and The Chronic Dramatization Of A Profound (and Even Suppressive) Need To Control the psycho-physical self (and others), Especially Via The Efforts Of the conceptual mind and the effects Of merely conceptual Expression. The "Solid" character Is Also Associated With Diminished or Suppressed (or Over-Controlled and Mechanical) vital-physical activity or Capability, and it Is Generally Represented By A Suppression (or Sometimes Chaotic Display) Of emotional Expression (Of both Positive, or Non-Reactive, and Negative, or Reactive, emotions). . . .
Truly human and adult Maturity Requires The Transcending Of The Chronic and Obsessive character Patterns Developed In the years of infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Truly human and adult Maturity Is The Achievement Of A Balance Between The Motive Toward Control Of the psycho-physical self and The Motive Toward Motion (or Excitation) Of the psycho-physical self. Truly human and adult Maturity Requires self-Control and A Willingness To Be Even physically Affected, emotionally Touched, mentally Influenced and (Thus, To A Significant Degree) Controlled By others. Likewise, Truly human adulthood (or Maturity) Requires The Constant Exercise (or Excitation) Of The Motive Of (or Toward) Real Freedom (Even The Most Ultimate Freedom Of Utter ego-Transcendence and Inherent, and Inherently Most Perfect, Realization Of Me–The Avataric Self-Revelation Of The Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition, and Source-Condition, Of all-and-All).
