Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
A schizoid person has semantic humor, not buffoonery (which is more to be expected from hysteria and hyperthymia). Often, alas, black. The schizoid will not tell his child that he was «made with a finger.» This will tell your child hyperthymia. His black humor is more sophisticated: “Here, it turns out, something that starts up in dampness …” And this is “loving”, because it is implied that, they say, what a charm you are. And after all, you can’t refuse this phrase, despite its gloominess, in good quality. Or to a sweet young wife, the husband says: “Let’s kiss before we die!” But in fact, not after death. When I tried to wean myself from meat-eating, I came up with the phrase: “I come home, open the refrigerator, and there is a corpse of a chicken, a clawed paw sticks out, there are remnants of unplucked feathers on it, the skin is in pimples, and bluish corpse spots are on it.”
An excellent example of humanistic black humor (and it happens) in Anatole France’s «The Miracle Created by the Magpie», Guillaume, as usual, fell asleep hungry on his bell tower, blown by all the winds, «He dreamed that a certain wife of the most perfect beauty was kissing him. But, wishing to return the kiss and stretching out his lips to her, he immediately swallowed two or three wood lice that crawled over his face. Their light touch and took for kisses his drowsy mind.
Often the humor of schizoids is accusatory. “Wealth is sacred in all states, in democratic states only it is sacred” — this is again Anatole France. And in the conditions of our reality, I modified this phrase: «Wealth is sacred for all strata of society, only it is sacred for the Russian intelligentsia.» I can’t resist quoting the words of the great schizoid Jorge Luis Borges: “In 1515, Father Bartolome … felt sorry for the Indians, who were exhausted from overwork in the hell of the Antillean gold mines, and he suggested to Emperor Charles the Fifth that they import blacks so that the blacks would be exhausted in the hell of the Antillean gold mines” .
The humor of the schizoid is directly related to his non-standard thinking. To see the funny, you need to have such thinking. The schizoid will see the similarity of protruding ears with wings and will give it out in the form of an original caustic joke.
I already wrote that one should be more careful with humor, especially in relation to the paranoid and the epileptoid. I give this advice primarily to schizoid people who can be talented satirists. This should also be taken into account by hyperthymic people, whose jokes are shallow, but can also hurt. If the hysteroid begins to compete with the schizoid in the field of humor, then he will tease him, and he will ridicule him in full, since the schizoid produces humor, and the hysteroid usually only quotes.
However, sometimes the schizoid is forced to take on the role of a jester, and then it becomes hard for him. This is not hyperthym, which is “a jester, he is a jester”, it is still a fragile, brittle schizoid. And he takes on the guise of a jester involuntarily. By the way, the jesters at the courts of kings — the same King Lear — were precisely schizoids, who are most often smarter than kings. They were smart and sarcastic, because it was fashionable for kings to allow such a measure of freedom of speech … But if the schizoids become uncontrollable, they sarcastically out of status, they are pulled up. Yes, and the kings pulled the jesters when they went beyond the measure of what was permitted.