Using one accepted measure of personality profiling, the subject can be categorised as the type: Extroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving (ESTP).
Gamesmanship is the calling card of the ESTP. The subject, like all of this type, has a natural drive for competition and her willing manipulation of those about her illustrates the unscrupulous component of this personality type. Almost unconciously the subject looks for nonverbal, perhaps subliminal cues as to what makes her quarry 'tick.' Once she knows, she waits for precisely the right time to trump the unsuspecting victim's ace and glory in her conquest. Oddly enough, most ESTPs seem to admire and respect anyone who can best them at this game.
The subject is, on available evidence, the consummate tease - an expert with the ability to trap people emotionally and keep her victims long after that first titillation of desire. Why is she so seductive? To understand, one must examine another quality: narcissism. Freud characterised the 'narcissistic woman' as the type with the greatest affect on men. To give a brief, I believe illuminating, explanation to the subject's character: happily self-contained and self-involved she has little psychic need of other people. Indeed her only real friends seem to be Danny Mitt and Rose Takeheda <subject cross-referenced>. The subject's lure is double-edged - 1. people suspect they may take for themselves that feeling of happy self-involvement; 2. men are challenged by the subject's independence - they wish to be the one to make her dependant, to burst her bubble.
Flirtatiousness and seductiveness have long been tools of social power for women. This may indeed explain the subject's behaviour, however I believe a more powerful motivation lies in the subject's fractious relationship with her father. More details will follow as I become closer to the subject - but for the moment, this examiner must admit to being greatly intrigued by this coquetteish personality. |
