Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
An intellectual component is also introduced into love in a schizoid. You can fall in love with a smart, knowledgeable, original thinking person. A smart woman who understands my intellectual needs. Schizoids have no claims to appearance. He does not need a swan neck and gypsy singing with a guitar in it. Moreover, she does not need an external gloss in it. Often they both love nature, science, animals, reading. On this they agree. They live together for a long time. If then a young woman turns him around, he can, with intellectual lies on his lips, leave his wife, with whom he has lived for many years. But more often than not, none of the young people need him, and “the old horse doesn’t spoil the furrow,” and there’s no need to change the awl for soap. Cheating is rare for the same reasons.
We have already written that the schizoid does not care about the family. Children are abandoned at home. They may end up in a boarding school. After all, they create some hindrance to creativity, which is more interesting. This, with a certain degree of intellectual cynicism, is justified in a psychoprotective way: they say that humanity will take care of my child.
But it may happen that a child for a schizoid is also an object of creativity: you can teach him, learn poetry with him, watch how he develops, read original pedagogical literature and immediately apply what you read to the child.
The family takes care of the schizoid. He seems to be in the family and at the same time outside of it. He is in the working group — and outside of it. He belongs to eternity. One artist and poet (in one person) wrote about himself like this:
I belong to eternity.
By her order, I cut linoleum at night
And I add rows of lines.
And people, not all, of course, are unaware of this.
Then they will put on a soldier’s uniform on me.
They will pour warm slops of their judgments on me.
Then they will be fined for free travel in a trolley bus.
This is not a delusion of greatness, this is just a vision of oneself next to the world of people.