Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
The hysteroid makes plans for life, but not too distant: for a year, no more. He flirts with life. He will start a fight, and then it will be seen what happens, he does not think through the situation many moves ahead, as an epileptoid would do. But, unlike the paranoid one, who also likes to get into a fight, the hysteroid often quickly leaves the game, cools down — and joins another game. The paranoid, having got involved in a fight, brings the matter to the end, often absurd, but to the end. The paranoid flirts with death.
The career of an hysteroid, like that of a paranoiac, is zigzag, but these zigzags have a smaller amplitude. The hysteroid weaves a network of intrigues, but not murderous, like the paranoid one. His conspiracies are not of a global nature — more and more on trifles: to get a higher position, to press an insidious article about someone in the press.
The hysteroid flirts with its originality, but it is original in relation to the “provincial”, to the “old-fashioned”. This originality of his is borrowed from the paranoid, he is a fish-stuck near a shark. He can be a sing-along with a whale too. He likes to be in the corridors of power, but even there he rather sang along with the opposition group (I don’t want to be unoriginal). If the paranoid is really independent, then the hysteroid only boasts of his belonging to the independent, but he himself is still dependent, because he cannot develop his original oppositional concept: he lacks erudition, perseverance, and breadth of thinking.
He quickly sacrifices his old connections, establishing new ones, and betrays his former allies. The hysteroid often joins the dissidents (paranoid) and flaunts this dissent, but he is not so stubborn. If the situation changes, he instantly changes the circle of dissidents. The hysteroid is cunning and intriguing along with his leader.
The typical behavior of a hysteroid is to come to a strange monastery and come to terms with its charter. He is not able to develop his vein.
The hysteroid loves to secretly rule. This is Madame Pompadour, milady from the Three Musketeers. Intrigues, persuasion, conspiracies … She is pleased when the powers that be (paranoid and epileptoids) fulfill her whims, even if they are frightening. Especially if it is frightening: Salome demanded from Herod the head of John the Baptist, and he did not dare to refuse her, although this threatened to unrest the people.
The hysteroid rarely achieves serious political or bureaucratic power. But, once in power, he is even more than paranoid, he is fond of its paraphernalia (entering with a report, etc.).