The Updated DGB Model of The Personality

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.  Albert Einstein

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Well, I am not sure that Einstein was referring to his theory of relativity or his Y equals MC squared formula when he gave us the quote above....but still, there is a lot of significance to what he is saying. All else being equal, simple explanations, models, and/or theories are generally preferable to more complicated, convoluted ones.


The 20 compartment model -- which has grown to 21 compartments as of today -- now looks like this:

A/ The Superego States or 'Compartments'

1. The Nurturing Superego;
2. The Dionysian-Narcissistic-Hedonistic ('DNH' or Pleasure-Seeking) Superego;
3. The 'Oral Phobic' and/or 'Anal-Righteous-Schizoid-Distancing' Superego (There are actually two different types of 'distancing superegos' here: a) 'The Oral Phobic Superego' that is afraid to confront; and b) 'The Anal-Righteous-Schizoid-Distancing Superego' which judges, criticizes, rejects, and abandons silently -- often, the two work in tandem;
4. The Overtly Righteously Critical Superego (3 and 4 are connected in their 'righteously critical' characteristic but distinctive in terms of their respective 'silent, covert, judgment' vs. 'overtly critical judgment' characteristics;

B/ 'Main Floor' Decision-Making Ego-States

5. The Private, Integrative 'Shadow-Id-Ego-Superego';
6. The Public 'Persona-Ego';
7. The Central Decision-Making, Conflict-Resolving (CEO) Ego;
8. The 'Board Room' and/or 'Psychotherapy' Room;

C/ The Underego States or 'Compartments'

09. The Disapproval-Avoiding (Approval-Seeking or 'Oral Phobic') Underego;
10. The Dionysian-Narcissistic-Hedonistic (DNH or Pleasure-Seeking) Underego;
11. The Oral-Phobic and/or The Anal-Righteous-Schizoid-Distancing Underego;
12. The Overtly Righteous-Rebellious-Deconstructive Underego;

 D/ The More 'Subconscious' Ego-States

13. The Dream and Fantasy Weaver (which is The Central Ego working overtime and subconsciously at night as well as during the day, turning Shadow-Id-Ego Factions into dreams, allusions, jokes, sarcasm, art, sublimations, projections, transference complexes, displacements, reaction formations, denials, distortions, compromise formations, and other forms of defense mechanisms);

14. 'Escaped' Integrative 'Shadow-Id-Ego (SHIE)' Factions;

15. The Screening 'Shadow-Id-Ego Vault';

16. Rising Shadow-Id-Ego Factions (Including Reality, Traumacy and Fantasy Factors);

17. The Memory-Learning-Generalization-Transference-Lifestyle Complex-Templates;

18. The Shadow-Id-Ego (Including The Life and Death Instincts, and The Sex and Ego Instincts);

19. The Black Hole or Abyss, Chaos, The Apeiron;

20. The Womb;

21. The Genetic-Existential-Potential Self (including the capability for re-creating thousands of years of genetic, mythological picture symbols and their unique, individual meaning, the capability for learning language symbols and their unique, individual as well as shared, social meaning, and the unique set of individual talents and capabilities that our Creator has given us).


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