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page 142 - Foundations of Psychohistory
4. That
psychogenic modes determine the level of personality which can be
attained, and establish the typical conflicts and defenses of
each historical period which sustain the art, religion, politics
and economics of each age.
4A. Psychogenic modes correspond to specific sets of personality
types, using typical defensive patterns and growing in ego
strength with each mode:
| Infanticidal Mode |
Schizoid Personality |
Primary-process thinking, symbiotic omnipotence, gender/zonal confusion, splitting and projective identification, sado-masochistic disorders |
| Abandoning Mode |
Autistic Personality |
Unrelated, narcissistic, exploitive, parasitic, distrustful, oral rage, self weak or grandiose, psychopathic, unable to tolerate delay, lacking in remorse, idealized mother, timeless |
| Ambivalent Mode |
Depressive Personality |
Guilty and depressed, insatiable in needs for love, status, sex, enormous superego demands, reality of time |
| Intrusive Mode |
Compulsive Personality |
Pseudorational, cold, detached, self critical inwardly, phobic, obsessive-compulsive and conversion symptoms |
| Socializing Mode |
Anxiety Personality |
Less rigid character armor, free-floating anxiety and dissatisfaction with life due to delegate-living, loss of individuality in group, incomplete feelings |
| Helping Mode |
None yet adult |
4B. These personality types can range from "normal" to "abnormal" within each mode, depending on the degree of integration within the personality and the degree of support given by others in the historical period:
| Infanticidal | Abandoning | Ambivalent | Intrusive | Socializing | |
| N o r m a l |
Schizoid Personality |
Autistic personality |
Depressive personality |
Compulsive personality |
Anxiety personality |
| N e u r o t I c |
Impulse disorders and sado-masochistic defenses | Anaclitic (neglect) depressive disorders and psychopathic defenses | Introjective (guilt) depressive disorders and manic defenses | Obsessive-compulsive disorders and conversion defense | Hysterical disorders and psycho-sexual defenses |
| P s y c h o t i c |
Catatonic and hebephrenic | Paranoid schizophrenia | Manic-depressive psychosis |
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