Basic Psychology

*Reality is not the ego's native habitat. (This is why REM sleep is a necessity for most people)*
In *The Ego and the Id*, Freud argued that the id was the source of the personality's desires, and therefore of the psychic energy that powered the mind. Freud defined libido as the instinct energy or force. Freud later added the death drive (also contained in the id) as a second source of mental energy.

In 1928, Carl Jung published a seminal essay entitled "On Psychic Energy". Later, the theory of psychodynamics and the concept of "psychic energy" was developed further by those such as Alfred Adler and Melanie Klein.

Psychological energy and psychological force are the basis of an attempt to formulate a scientific theory according to which psychological phenomena would be subject to precise laws akin to how physical objects are subject to Newton's laws. Just as physical energy acts upon physical objects, psychological energy would act upon psychological entities (i.e. thoughts and beliefs).

This concept of psychological energy is completely separate and distinct from (or even directly opposed to) the mystical eastern concept of spiritual energy.

There are 8 general types (four pairs) of psychological energy corresponding to 8 psychological "muscles" and your psychological type is determined by how much of each you are born with. Some people have infinite mental energy and some have zero but most seem to either have finite or infinitesimal energy. Finite mental energy ranges form strong to weak.

## Types

See also: Socionics
Jung's typological model regards psychological type as similar to left or right handedness: people are either born with, or develop, certain preferred ways of perceiving and deciding. Jung's typology theories postulated four cognitive functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition), each having one of two polar orientations (extraversion or introversion), giving a total of eight dominant functions.

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The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on these eight hypothetical functions, although with some differences.

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Each of these is associated with a basic human drive. (Female empathy is animal love. Brotherly sympathy is human love.)

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Each of which answers a different question

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Adjectives commonly used to describe them:

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Elements commonly used to describe them:

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Other:

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Each of the eight types listed above corresponds to a psychological "muscle". Your type is determined by whether you enjoy using that muscle or not and that in turn is determined by genetics.

**Females** have strong empathy muscles and infinitesimal anti-empathy muscles.
**Males** have strong anti-empathy muscles and infinitesimal empathy muscles.
**Schizoids** have infinitesimal empathy muscles and infinitesimal anti-empathy muscles.
**Hermaphrodites** would have strong empathy muscles and strong anti-empathy muscles.
Thus there are four genders (but only two sexes).

(Besides being finite or infinitesimal a muscle can also be infinite or zero but these do not appear to be common.)

If you enjoy using a muscle then it tends to get strong. Psychological "muscles" can become infinitely strong. An infinitely strong person has more strength in their little finger than a finite person has in their whole body.

Even muscles that you dont enjoy using can be strengthened but you will never enjoy using it no matter how strong it gets.

To strengthen a muscle lift weights. Just do it.

Here are the "weights" each muscle lifts:

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And:

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### Sensing/Intuition

Sensing types

* develop strong beliefs based on information that is in the present, tangible, and concrete: that is, empirical information that can be understood by the five senses. They tend to distrust hunches, which seem to come "out of nowhere". They care more about winning arguments than about being right.

Intuition types

* tend to be more interested in the underlying reality than in superficial appearance.

### Extraverted/Introverted

Extraverted types

* recharge and get their energy from spending time with people.

Introverted types

* recharge and get their energy from spending time alone

An ambivert is both intraverted and extroverted.

### Thinking/Feeling

Thinking types

* tend to decide things from a more detached standpoint, measuring the decision by what seems reasonable, logical, causal, consistent, and matching a given set of rules. A thinking type would say "If you break the law you go to jail. End of discussion."

Feeling types

* tend to come to decisions by associating or empathizing with the situation, looking at it 'from the inside' and weighing the situation to achieve, on balance, the greatest harmony, consensus and fit, considering the needs (and egos) of the people involved. A feeling type would want to know why the crime was committed and what the root cause of it was and how best to prevent it happening again.

A hermaphrodite is both Feeling and Thinking.

### Perception/Judging

Perception types

* like to "keep their options open". In other words they are willing to cheat. They like to rule. They like to be in charge.

Judging types

* are more comfortable with a structured environment. One that is planned and organized, rational and reasonable. An environment in which cheating is not permitted or is strongly discouraged. An environment in which everyone can get their fair share.

## 16 composite types

See also: Keirsey Temperament Sorter, Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

Operators and Entertainers
SJ: Guardians (practicality)

Administrators and Conservators
NT: Rationals (logic)

Engineers and Coordinators
NF: Idealists (principles)

Advocates and Mentors | The ideal leader would be

both Perceiving and Judging (P & J)
The ideal policeman would be

both Extroverted and Introverted (E & I)
The ideal teacher would be

both Thinking and Feeling (T & F)
The ideal scientist would be

It looks like The N type (intuition, i.e. curiosity) has the single biggest and most positive effect on peoples psychology. So the easiest way to improve the world would be to increase peoples curiosity. Perhaps a video game could be made to do this. But people who do not value curiosity will need to be able to see how using their curiosity would lead directly to the things they do value (like winning the game).

## Disorders

See also: Spirits and Con men

Having both psychological "muscles" of a pair being infinitesimal results in a person who, in that respect, seems infinitely "hard". (Very "adult".) Hard as iron. People who are "hard" show no mercy.

Schizoid: neither Feeling nor Thinking

Macho (hyper-male, hyper-judge)
Autistic: neither Intuition nor Sensing

Great (hyper-lawyer, hyper-empiric) (The "great" man does not think in terms of good-bad or right-wrong or logical-illogical but rather in term of great vs not great. They believe whatever they want to believe whether its right or not)
Aspergers: neither Introverted nor Extraverted

Cool (hyper-soldier) (Super-soldiers see everyone as the enemy. Not just the ones on the other side)
Schizophrenic: neither Perception nor Judging

Holy (hyper-superior, god-like, above the law)

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People that are all four (autistic, schizoid, schizophrenic, and have aspergers) are called "all-mockers". See also: Mafia

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## Zeros (Diamonds)

Having both psychological "muscles" of a pair being zero results in:

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## Neurosis

Irrational fears can cause muscles to become inoperative. To an outside observer these muscles will superficially appear to be unnaturally strong but in reality they are useless. (This should not be confused with muscles that really are unnaturally strong.)

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## House

Information from your senses first goes to a computer in your brain that analyzes it and determines what is happening around you. It then uses that information to create a simulation, an inner world as it were, which it then uses to determine what is about to happen as well as why it is happening and the motives of the people causing it to happen. It is this inner world that we actually inhabit. This inner world is your "house".

Your inner world should be and usually is a more or less accurate representation of the external world but with some small differences. (See Checker shadow illusion.) These differences may be small but they can have a large effect on your feeling of well being.

Arguments with other people as well as more minor frustrations like constantly bumping into people at the supermarket all generate heat. You may quickly cool off but one of the properties of your house is that is retains this heat for much longer than you do. That is a **very** good thing because if it didnt then you would quickly become bitterly cold (but see also: Harold Deal). If you think heat is bad then you have never been cold. Once you realize that heat is a good thing then minor frustrations will stop grating on your nerves.

Hate is a pathological form of heat that is highly offensive to some types. Hate is ironically the result of loving to much. The cure is to not care. To not love.

### Dreaming

The characters in your dreams are actors whose job is to keep you from realizing that you are dreaming. To keep you asleep. The same thing goes on when you are awake just not to the same degree.

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## Happiness

From Developing happiness

Happiness can be a result of positive external circumstances causing us to feel joy

or

Happiness can come bubbling up from within even in the face of extremely bad external circumstances.

When circumstances make you miserable you can use it as an opportunity to strengthen your happy muscle by simply laughing (It might take quite a bit of effort though. As the muscle strengthens it will get easier).

Note: Cleaning is not the same thing as being happy. Thats totally different. Cleaning is just pretending to be happy, not actually being happy.

I am told that, for some inexplicable reason (I have no idea why), some people consider developing happiness to be a "sexual" act. Developing happiness therefore must wait until young adults are of legal age.

When in a painful and difficult situation people will sometimes resort to clowning around to make things seem less painful. You are much better off exercising your happy muscle than clowning around.

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## Time

Time is different from the other drives like curiosity. Time exerts an infinite amount of power over us. This is an endless source of pain suffering and even terror. The reason its like this is because it's the animals that are terrified of death that survive. We live in the terrorverse and these bodies we inhabit are little more than torture devices. They could have built any universe at all and they built this. See also: Reward#Midbrain.

It shouldn't be like this. Nothing should have that kind of power over us.