Work hard, play hard -- but watch out for the self-destructive playpens. -- dgb, Aug. 13, 2012
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Well, let's take a quick look at our DGB model of the personality as it stands today -- and then see how we might this model to an understanding of the 'addictive personality type'.
A distinction can be made between two types of neuroses:
1. 'The Dionysian Personality': 'The hyper-impulsive type' (low frustration control); and...
2. 'The Apollonian Personality': 'The hypo-impulsive type' (low impulse spontaneity, over-controlled, overly suppressed...)
These two personality -- or 'sub-personality' -- types are taken from Nietzsche's first book, 'The Birth of Tragedy'. They are by no means the only personality and/or sub-personality types that we can look at, but they are certainly two major ones that we can probably all identify with, at least to some significant extent. Ultimately, or ideally, we are looking for the 'ultimate or ideal balance' between these two personality types, which we may or may not spend our whole lives trying to achieve this type of balance with 'partial successes', 'partial failures', and 'greater successes' and 'greater failures'.
Who among us can work hard every day with great success, play hard every day with great success, and never feel 'one wheel coming off the cart', or 'the other wheel coming off our cart' at any particular measuring point in our life -- and not feel that we are often, if not usually, 'riding a one-sided cart' that is 'tipping towards the Dionysian Side' or 'tipping towards the Apollonian Side' -- or 'flip-flopping back and forth like a 'crazy person' which is only our mind- body trying to find an acceptable balance point between two opposite extreme personality polarities (or seemingly not)', which is often referred to as a 'bipolar disorder' -- or, alternatively, using a more old-fashioned, and often, more concretely descriptive name -- a 'manic-depressive' disorder? (which is Dionysus and Apollo, or in Freudian language, the id and the superego, taking turns controlling the ship and neither doing a very good job of it because The Central, Mediating Ego can't or won't find the 'middle ground balance' between them....).
See this essay below for the completion of the essay above....
The Newest GAP-DGB Quantum Psychoanalytic '20 Compartment' Model of The Human Psyche (May 26, June 5, 6, 10, Aug. 14, 2012)
http://hegelshotel-mostrecentpapers.blogspot.ca/2012/05/newest-gap-dgb-philosophy-psychology.html
