Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
Among all psychotypes, fifteen percent are schizoids. Women and men among all schizoids are approximately equal. All this is just my intuitive observation.
It makes sense to study statistical relationships, but perhaps out of idle interest. We can be satisfied with these intuitive observations.
But it makes sense to talk a little more about the combination of schizoid features with features of other psychotypes.
Often, hysteroid traits join schizoid traits. But not positive, but negative. And then schizoid dysplasticity is complemented by obsessive demonstrativeness. It looks funny and ridiculous. And if the schizoid intellect is combined with melodious hysteroid intonations, as happens with literature teachers, then the impression of other negative schizoid qualities is smoothed out.
This is the path to success. But often, unfortunately, we meet exactly the first option, and not the second.
The schizoid acquires paranoid traits less often than hysteroid ones. It happens that in the process of schizoid intellectual «free swimming» and against the background of success, a certain purposefulness arises in it. This option would be nice if the goals set by the schizoid were always noble.
And so after all, irresponsibility for cloning and other types of genetic engineering, for the Manhattan projects and transplantation is aggravated by the accumulated paranoia, the persistence with which «paranoid schizoids» achieve results. Now, if all schizoids had the morality of Copernicus, who did not publish his work on the heliocentric system of the world only because he considered it untimely. He was afraid to bring confusion into the minds of his discovery — only in the minds, and not in the questions of war and peace (and now we are talking not just about war, but about world war).
Now about the relationship of the schizoid with other psychotypes and communication with them.
It is difficult for schizoids to get along with hysteroids, they have no common interests, we almost never see them together. And if they do meet, then the hysteroid laughs at the schizoid for his disregard for fashion, and the schizoid with the hysteroid simply has nothing to talk about. With a hysterical wife, the schizoid has eternal conflicts due to low earnings.
The fact that the schizoid is the supplier of philosophical and speculative ideas, and the paranoid one is their developer and fighter for their implementation, we have already said so many times that we apologize for the extra reminder of this.
Communication in the «schizoid-schizoid» system has already been partly illustrated in the episode with Hegel and Feuerbach. And if you translate it into everyday life, then they usually communicate with their own kind of lonely brothers in intellect, discuss their often lifeless projects over beer-vodka, psychic sessions, smoke cigarettes, smoke stairwells while talking, load each other with their problems and ideas, experiment with gravity-levitation, they demonstrate either «telekinesis», or their erudition … They gather spontaneously in flocks in the smoking rooms of libraries, but they also read a lot there, in contrast to the hysteroids who demonstrate their involvement with the intellectual elite. They gather in each other’s apartments, drink coffee, stay up late. The next morning, with a heavy head, they go to read or listen to lectures. And the vagueness of their positions is aggravated by the fog in the head from sleepless pastime.
With epileptoids, schizoids have eternal conflicts on the basis of disorder in things. They also arise with psychastenoids because of the latter’s love for purity and neglect of it by schizoids.