Heyman Lectures - Session 2, Part 1

Interactions of Dimensions Moving from Primitive to Basic and Contact

Session 2 - Part 1

• Never see a dimension all by itself in an individual. Neither primitive nor compensation etc.
• Example: See E with A, not just E.ani
• Example: E can be taciturn and suspicious when R and U, not outgoing relating if E with F and A.n
• Dealing with a snapshot in developmental time.
• IRA self motivated, self-centered, high organized, socially effective.
• IRU technical, aloof, devoting energies to intellectual, technical, and procedural activities rather than social interactive.
• IFA expressive, artistic.
• IFU contemplative
• ERA outgoing entrepreneurial,
• ERU technocratic, practical, realistic, procedural, socially restrained, somewhat suspicious. U inhibits E expression.
• EFA theatrical, outgoing, relating, sensitive, sensitive, socially involving.
• EFU defensive (Charlie Brown) outreaching, socially awkward, apprehensive.
• Each has its problems and adjustments.
• EFU works so hard to be accepted and no matter how much compensates, still has some apprehension, self-esteem problems.
• Example: EFU Ecc Fuc+ Uco. Basic i*fa*.
  Maintains sensitivity but has become intellectualized and outgoing.
  Surface: i/ r` a/ - performs intellectual and sort of an "a"
  So an outsider sees IRA - intellectualized, organized, socially effective
  What you do not see but are aware is taking place if close: in spite of contact (independent, organized, socially effective), inside is Charlie Brown who cannot accept acceptance.
• "Capacity for Status" implies ability to store up status. EFU has high need for status but cannot store it up.
• Always see the crumbs left behind of the primitive.

Today will talk about what it takes to get from primitive to basic and contact.

• Even a parent may see mostly the behavior of the basic/contact and miss what is underneath. Example above at 8-9 years old, in Japan and blue-eyed blond was loved. Made him look IRA.
• PAS tells us person starts with primitive and compensates or not and then modifies or not. In the model, basic is locked in middle adolescent. Contact is adult surface contact - cocktail party, business - adult presenting personality.
• Some say individual lives in his "primitive" world for some years and then lives in "basic" world in middle years. Mike says that is not the actual model. Mike: At primitive level (e.g. delivery room) - interaction is taking place between primitive personality and the world. On the basis of that interaction, the person starts to modify (not compensate) i.e. consciously behavior to adapt. Person may find behavior works (is accepted) and persevertes it. If this modification is persistent over time, it crystalizes in the basic personality as compensation.
• Dynamics take place through effort. When they become the normal response, then we have compensation.
• Never see individual components. To see what is going on in the whole person (like an engine), we need to know what is going on in the components (like a carburetor) where in PAS, components are dimensions.
• Primitive I (high D) - does well on D due to capacity to deal with abstract meaningless numbers. To an E, meaningless plus is distracted - prefers practical concrete reality.
• I thinks symbolically. Can be happy with internal activity. Feelings are obscured. Memory verbal and symbolic. E memory is thing oriented.
• So I either gains acceptance for this behavior or placed under pressure to change. If home for example, parents come home from work and read, this encourages I. Detachment and inactivity are nurtured. Can be indifferent and independent. Likes security.
• Iu needs protection - does not develop faculties to take care of self.
• Yet if the I behavior is not accepted, then pressure to change. Especially if A qualities, then interacting is important, this also pushes modified behavior of the I to E behavior. Learns mechanisms to be outgoing physically active, environmentally dependent. So behaves like E and acquires values of E.
• In order to do that the I has to put behind him many of the qualities of the previous constellation. If moves to Ic+, due to all the effort, will feel threatened by things that challenge him to behave like an I. e.g. when rest of the world is not there to involve with.
• Early experience was that showing I self-sufficient etc. brought grief and punishment so uncomfortable to Ic.
• Two components: Controlling earlier tendency; Acquiring opposite tendency.
• Compensated person resists appeal to act like primitive.
• "Soft Compensation" - Scores on for example Arith very low then clearly uncompensated; very high clearly compensated. But what about scores in the middle. Some conflict in mid scores. Compensated of both for example I and E share traits: Tension and then conflict if pressure to express primitive. Anxious about being the primitive; guilty when expresses primitive. With "soft compensation", individual can be "switch hitter" - doesn't have the tension and conflict. Operates somewhat in between. Can be fairly comfortable as I or E. Problem: Hard compensation has the advantage of no ambiguity. Soft compensation experiences ambiguity - conflict because does not know which role to play. Experiences more competition for his activities.
• People in the middle (e.g. XYZ - in the middle on primitives). When have for example Xoo, Is this good or bad? Can be inadequate or borderline personality. He has all the ingredients to do anything but cannot move off the middle.
• Non-commitment in Xoo etc. makes for superficiality or ambiguity, especially at higher NL because "everything is there" to function well but does not.
• Iu - introversive personality- leave me alone. Uc so outgoing. Conflict between Iu and Uc - headaches from social activity.
• Ec, Uc+ moving intellectual and social - person knows where he wants to go in an individual dimension but they are in conflict so have tension. Can relate well if there is no intellectual need present, and can study like made if no social demands. But when then come together - conflict. IF wife needs to relate, she can "dump" and the Uc encourages this, but violates the Ec.