Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
The main feature is purposefulness
“Our unity, like never before, has acquired the solidity that I have been striving for for many years in this difficult and great company … Hitler, even at the end of the war, was determined only to win.
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So, we repeat, this psychotype is characterized by increased, therefore, more pronounced than in other people, purposefulness … This concept can be defined as holding the developed program of action in the «memory of the will.» It is necessary, as it were, to separate from other «compartments» of memory that which is connected in it precisely with an act of will.
That is, I remember what I planned to accomplish, I keep this goal under the gun of my memory, I force myself to work towards this goal all the time.
Paranoiacs keep the program of action in the «memory of the will» better than other psychotins. Hyperthymes and unstable programs of action are practically not kept in memory. Asthenics painfully hesitate and cannot work out a program of action for a long time. Schizoids do not develop it at all, but create for themselves freely, as God puts on their souls. Hysteroids and epileptoids usually adhere to programs developed by other people, and hysteroids rush from program to program, and epileptoids conservatively adhere to a once and for all developed program. Well, the paranoid one develops a program himself, keeps it well in the “memory of the will” and imposes it on others.
A paranoid person can withstand great program tensions, he is inclined to them, he loves them. In this respect, it is similar to the epileptoid, but differs from hyperthymia, hysteroid, schizoid.
Generally speaking, any person sets himself goals that are more distant in time than any animal can do. But the tactics of «working with a goal» can be twofold. You can set a goal and choose the means to achieve it. And you can see the means and under them «pick up» the goal. In life there is a mixture of both tactics.
For example, we have planned a purchase, we earn money, we borrow money, we go and buy it, or, on the contrary, we earn money — we go to the market and look what to buy with it.
A paranoid person almost always prefers the first tactic: he sets a goal and finds means for it.
Let’s repeat: some goals, of course, are set and achieved by even the most weak-willed person, even an unstable psychotype. But the purposefulness of the paranoid eats literally everything in its path. First of all, in its movement towards the goal, the paranoid one, as already mentioned, steps on “the throat of his own song”, that is, he is inclined to suppress his other needs. And here we must pay tribute to his will. For example, being sexy enough, the paranoid one has little sex, he has no time.
But if only this… No, since he himself gives himself entirely to the cause to which he serves, to which he has dedicated his life, then, in his opinion, it is possible to force others to work for this cause, one can neglect their interests, destinies and even lives.
The notorious thesis of the cynical politician of the Renaissance Machiavelli “the end justifies the means” characterizes this psychotype as precisely as possible.
And if simple norms of morality are put forward as a counterbalance to this thesis, then the paranoid person has psycho-protective excuses: I serve all of humanity, and the interests of an individual person can and should be neglected.
In this sense, the most striking illustration is the «father of nations» Stalin. He did not sleep at night, he worked, and while he did not sleep, the members of the government did not sleep, anxiously waiting for a call. Moreover, not only subordinates, but also relatives should not sleep at night. His wife, as a rule, is a typist, children are couriers.
Energy
The paranoid person is very energetic, efficient, works almost without rest. He can, as was said, withstand great programmatic stresses, steadily carry out what was planned. He sleeps in fits and starts, chronically lacks sleep from overload, it happens that he sleeps off, but rarely. Get up at the first signal. Holds the phone near the bed and grabs the toe after the first call. But the sleep of the paranoid is deep, his conscience does not torment him at night (although other people’s opinion on this matter may be different). He falls asleep as quickly as he wakes up. There are no nightmares, but there are no pleasant ones either. All his joy lies in his activities “for the good of the fatherland”, which, in his opinion, is always in danger.
I didn’t say «energetic» on purpose. Energy can be short-lived, and the paranoid has a huge supply of energy. They are energetic, tireless.
The paranoid psychotype is a perpetual motion machine, perpetuum mobile, a person who sets in motion many people around him.