Seven I of soul. 7 roles of the team. 7 faces of the soul. 7 types of character (english edition)

§7. TRICKSTER

LONG-NOSED INTRIGUER

It is noticed long ago, that cunning manner, sneakiness, and resourcefulness are somehow connected with nose and scent. That is why a crook, a cunning man, a deceiver, a schemer are always portrayed with a long nose, and the long-nosed artist is necessarily chosen for the role of the cunning dodger.

When they want to say that a person is a liar and a deceiver, he is drawn with a long nose. Speech turns, indicating the manners of cunning people, are always connected with nose and nose: “To lead by the nose” means to deceive. “To lead around a nose”, “to leave with a nose” – means to deceive.

The gesture “to show the nose” – to put your thumb to the nose and protrude the little finger – means “I have deceived you”.

“Sniffed” – they say about the conspiracy of intriguers. Emphasizing their insight, they say: “smelled out”, “got a sniff of”. They are curious, like to “poke their nose into” other people’s affairs. But sometimes they manage to “pinch their nose”.

It is considered that the nose grows because of lies. For example, the nose of a wooden little man Pinocchio grew when he told a lie.

So, the connection between wit and nose (scent) is noted by the people and is reflected in speech turns, fairy tales, sayings, gestures. Consequently, this connection exists objectively, and the work of physiologists is to explain its nature. Only the fact of the existence of such connection is important for psychology, and its physiological mechanism does not matter. Psychology is aimed at understanding of the soul, not the body, and the word psychology is translated as “knowledge of soul”, and “physiology” as knowledge of the body.

Three feelings are connected with a role of the Trickster: embarrassment (uncertainty), feeling of shame (disgrace, infamy) and feeling of fastidiousness (loathing, disgust).

AWKWARDNESS

When a person experiences the feeling of awkwardness and inconvenience, when he has fallen into awkward, uncomfortable state, then they say that he feels himself “ill at ease”. An awkward position is also called a ticklish position.

The feeling of awkwardness causes embarrassment generates shyness and bashfulness. Under the influence of awkwardness, a person becomes cautious, courteous, delicate, insinuating. He tries to behave so that not interferes into anything, not to make something wrong. He goes on tiptoe, sits down on the one corner of the chair.

The feeling of awkwardness is called as well the feeling of guilt. Experiencing awkwardness, a person behaves, as if apologizing, justifying himself. They behave so when want to make amends, to atone for the sins.

The feeling of awkwardness (uncertainty, inconvenience), in its strong manifestation, leads to the eccentric behaviour. In eccentric comedies, the character, experiencing awkwardness, grasps for one thing or another, does not know where to sit, where to put their hands. Awkwardness – is the “fair game” of the French comic artist Pierre Richard. Always apologizing and justifying.

A feeling of awkwardness, uncertainty is called “an inferiority complex”. When the person behaves, experiencing the feeling of awkwardness, then they say him: “Why are you complexing? Do not complex, do not fuss!”

From awkwardness is generated an obsequious, fawning manner of behaviour. When a person plays placebo, apple-polishes, ingratiate, then they say that he “caves in to, “stooges”, “lackeys”, “serves”.

When in an awkward situation people always try to get out, turn out, therefore streamline phrases and evasive, wanton speech with constant dissuasions are peculiar to people in whose character dominates the role of Trickster.

“Will you speak sincerely! Do not shy, do not hesitate!” – they say to Trickster. But he speaks evasively, with hints, obscure words. He escapes from direct questions. Says neither “yes”, nor “no”, nor “maybe”. He twists round, shirks. He dodges as water snake on a frying pan. He does not look into your eyes directly. They say about such a person: “sly fish”. He is able “to come out dry out of the water”. However, the Trickster is disclosed by the false “running” eyes.

Tricksters are people of quick and subtle mind. They can read “between the lines”, understand subtle hints, catch the slightest nuances. The liveliness of mind, flexibility of mind, resourcefulness and ingenuity are peculiar to them. They are curious and inquisitive. They are smart and nimble. They are called “snakes”, but at the same time, they are considered smart people. However, their mind is not deep, and knowledge is often superficial. They are people of a speculative mind. These erudites who have picked up “on the tops” of fragmentary information, but do not have deep knowledge.

Tricksters are masters of intrigue, politesse and behind-the-scenes affairs. They become politicians and diplomats. It is right to say that the awkward, uncomfortable position is an ordinary position of the diplomat. The diplomat’s job – is to get out of an embarrassing, ticklish situation.

It is known from medical practice that when a frontal region of the brain is damaged or removed, a person loses “quickness of mind”, loses wit and the ability to understand humour.

DISGRACE

Another feeling, connected with Trickster’s role – this is feeling of shame, disgrace, infamy, embarrassment.

The word “shame” is derived from the word “shamefacedness”. However, the shamefacedness as a feature of character, comes not from shame, from the feeling of awkwardness, accompanying it. The ticklish, awkward, uncomfortable position is a situation on the verge of shame. This is the desire to avoid shame, disgrace and an infamy.

Knowing the guilt of him, the Trickster tricks, dodges, experiences a feeling of awkwardness. But if after all “to bring him out into the open space”, “tear the mask off”, expose him, then he is experiencing the burning feeling of shame, disgrace, infamy.

When they want to disgrace a person, they say that it is need to “pin him to a pillory”. Why exactly to “pin” – in order for him not to wriggle out, cop out, slip out.

When a person is ashamed, he does not look directly into the eyes. He looks away, looks down, his eyes rest against the floor, in the ground. They say: “It was a shame to look into the people’s eyes. I did not know where to put my eyes from shame. I wanted to sink through the floor from a shame”.

They hide the face, cover their faces with hands, turn away, cover face with a mask or dark glasses from shame and disgrace. The typical image of a spy – a person with a long nose, wearing dark glasses, covering his face with a collar and hat. A spy goes on his half-bent legs and sniffing something.

Being afraid of a shame, any sins, defects, shameful, unseemly acts are hidden, concealed. What is a shame to do – they do such things secretly, quietly, in the shadows, behind the scenes. Because to do disgraceful things under the people’s looks is a shame. Therefore, they keep silent about shameful affairs, they darken. They say about shameful things: “shade deals”, “a dark story”, “a muddy story”.

Tricksters tend to the secretiveness. They always “keep something on their minds”. They strive, while remaining in the shadow, act by someone else’s hands. They like to “swim in muddy water”, like to “fish in muddy water”. They are called “muddy people”.

They become “gray cardinals” and “secret counsellors of the leaders”. They like to create a “shadow”, behind-the-scenes government.

When Trickster was “brought out into the open space”, when the secret becomes apparent, when sins “come up”, when “shady deals” become clear, then vile and disgusting acts become visible to all. Everything is in sight. “To put it in a sight” means to put it on public display, i.e., to general shame. The commander does so, when he puts the guilty soldier in front of the ranks and tells everyone about the heinous misdemeanour, or the teacher, when he puts the guilty student at the board in front of the whole class. In front of everyone, the offender feels awkwardness and shame. These feelings often go alongside because are connected with the same role of Trickster.

Shame, disgrace, infamy are called a burning feeling. Some people become red of a shame. A feeling of shame is called the conscience of a person. When a person experiences the feeling of shame, they say that his conscience is not clean, that his conscience torments him, he is tortured by remorse, he is burned by the shame of memories:

 
Memory burns us down and the conscience torments us,
The ones who have it.
(V. Vysotsky)
 

The conscience often stops people from abominable and vile deeds. If the person is capable to be ashamed, realize the guilt, then they say that he has a conscience. But it happens differently. It happens that a person “does not understand the shame”, “lies and does not blush” (with the shame). They tell him: “You have no shame, no conscience”.

There is an expression “the reflexing Russian intellectuals” which was often used concerning the intellectuals of the beginning of the XX century. “Reflection” consisted in the fact that the intellectuals chronically experienced feelings of shame and embarrassment. “Reflection” represents a social role of the intellectuals. The intellectuals has screw over, then it reflects, experiencing shame and awkwardness.

ABHORRENCE

Another feeling, connected with the role Trickster – this is the feeling of squeamishness, creepy, enormity, disgust, abhorrence.

Abhorrence – is an attitude toward something dirty, unclean. From the feeling of creepy and abhorrence come vile obscenity: unclean, disgusting, vile, bitchy, lousy, kike, shitty, crappy, abusive, vomitous and etc.

Abusive language can be not only dirty – connected with the feeling of abhorrence but spiteful, i.e. connected with the feeling of spite. No need to confuse rage and spite with abhorrence and creepy – this is different roles. The feeling of rage generates the aspiration to approach to a hatred object to tear, destroy, torture. They say in rage state: “Wait a moment, I will reach you!”. The feeling of abhorrence generates a desire to move away from the object of disgust as far as possible, shake off the dirt.

When something odiously was done to someone, they say that they have walked over him, have put him in a pool, have smeared in dirt, have dipped into shit, have poured slops, have despised, have shit all over. They say about such person: “got into a mess”, “step in” a shit, in a filthy, dirty story.

The imp, the evil spirit, is always something ugly and disgusting. The imp, the beastliness should be crushed, burnt, destroyed. Like slugs, worms, reptiles… Therefore rascals are beaten, people throw in them heavy objects. They strive to clean from sticky nasty dirt. “Nasty heretics” were burnt on the “cleaning” fire.

It can be noticed that the feeling of loathing and abhorrence often goes near embarrassment – they are connected with one role of the Trickster. For example, if a person decided to do an ugly and disgusting act, then, before committing it, he experiences a feeling of awkwardness. For example, before stealing, a person looks around stealthily. He knows that stealing is a meanly endeavour, therefore feels awkward. This transition to the role of the Trickster, he gives out his vile plan.

When they say that it is nasty and disgusting to lie, then they state the fact that the feeling of awkwardness (with which they usually lie) and the feeling of loathing (aversion) are connected with the same role of the Trickster-Deceiver.

The feeling of loathing comes alongside another feeling connected with the role of the Trickster, with the feeling of shame, disgrace, infamy. That, who is smeared in the mud, experiences not only a feeling of abhorrence and creepy, but the feeling of shame, disgrace:

 
And to dirty
Chimney sweepers —
Shame and disgrace,
Shame and disgrace!
(K Chukovskiy)
 

When they say that the biography of a person has “dirty spots” this means that a person has committed “dirty” and “vile acts”. Politicians who “have blurred” their reputation with some nasty affairs are called “dirty” politicians. It is known that “politics is a dirty business”, i.e., a matter that causes loathing and disgusting.

When a person wants to emphasize his contempt for anything, he calls it mud. “Dirty money” is money received in a nasty way. Therefore “dirty money” is “to be laundered”.

Unseemly affairs and acts are such affairs and acts which have no good appearance. Therefore, in order to dishonour a person, they first slander him with a mud (in the literal or figurative sense), and then – are put on public display, that is, to the general shame. At the same time, a person feels disgusted from the dirt, and the feeling of shame because everyone sees him slanged with mud or slops.

The ladies, experiencing the feeling of contempt, disgust, wrinkle their nose, go, slightly lifting their elbows, and they exclaim: “What a nasty thing! What an ugliness!” With the feeling of disgust, the mother tells the little child on a walk, when he grabs some dirty thing: “Boo that! Throw! Bleh!”

The feeling of loathing generates fastidiousness, over-fastidiousness, sanctimony. An intelligent affectation, grimacing generate from the feeling of creepy, loathing. Mother says to a little child: “Eat! Do not wriggle!” – when he wrinkles his nose, turns away, carries with a spoon on the plate.

If a feeling of disgust is addressed to a person, this feeling is called contempt. The feeling of contempt, fastidiousness, loathing living in the soul of Tricksters creates their contemptuous look and wrinkles from a nose to corners of lips. There is an impression, as if they constantly wrinkle a nose from a stench, snuffle. We often hear the expression from them: “this smelly nonsense”.

Words snuffling “gnusavy” (voice) and vile “gnusny” (act) have the general semantics – “vile” (because of the root “gnus”. Experiencing the feeling of loathing, such people themselves often strive to make everyone around nasty and vile things. That is why they are called vile persons, bastards, rascals. Tricksters are able to dismiss gossips and rumours, like to inform, write anonymous denunciations, to do mucks surreptitiously. To play a nasty trick— “to spit in the soul” – it is possible in different ways. In the Trickster’s arsenal is causticity, cynicism, mockery, irony, sarcasm, saying yes, malice. They have a caustic, sharp thought.

Nobody likes to be on the role of Trickster. No one likes to experience feelings of abhorrence, shame, loathing. These feelings are not liked by all people, regardless of whether the role of Trickster dominates in their character or not. However, those people, whose character has the dominating role of the Trickster, they are able to avoid situations in which they have to feel abhorrence, shame, loathing. And if they turn out to accept the role of Trickster, they try not to recognise, but they deeply and strongly experience feelings connected with this role.

Everyone knows the feelings connected with the role of the Trickster. Another thing is that some people possess a lot of qualities of this role, but others have not enough. A person whose character lacks the qualities of the role of Trickster is called a goon. There is no courtesy and delicacy in him. He does not know how to “smooth out sharp corners”, “get around sores”. Doubts and fluctuations are not peculiar to him. He has neither shame nor conscience. He “does not understand shame”. The cheapskate is not disgusting. The quick-wittedness, resourcefulness and ingenuity are not peculiar to him.

§8. VICTIM

FOUR-EYES CLEVER MAN

It is noted long ago that there is a connection between the mind of a person and his vision. A silent timid boy with glasses is a long-standing image of a smart, knowledgeable person, an image of a soft person. The connection between the mind of a person and weak vision so firmly established in the views of people that some people wear glasses only in order to appear smarter. “Ah, put on glasses!” – they say with amazement about the boor and rude who put on glasses to look like a soft and intelligent person.

If Tricksters have fast, but superficial, speculative mind, then “four-eyes clever men”, distinguishes with a deep mind. They are capable to develop and reconstruct easily the conceptual system owing to what they actually possess the developed system of concepts and representations.

Alas! Destiny of clever is to be the victim. This is true for humans and animals. Scientists often conduct experiments in rats – they suggest solving various “intellectual” tasks. Keep all rats in one cage. When forget to feed rats before the days off, rats due to hunger begin to eat each other. At the same time first are eaten the smartest rats, which were the best at solving “intellectual” tasks. After that, there are only their marked paint tails left in the cage.

Three feelings are connected with the role of Trickster: admiration, horror (fear) and sadness (sorrow, despair).

ADMIRATION

The feeling of admiration is called the feeling of beauty. It is expressed with excellent degrees and high marks. They say: “wonderfully”, “charming”, “beautiful”, “excellent”, “wonderful” “amazing”, “delightful”, etc. They usually groan, gasp, eyes roll to the sky.

The feeling of admiration is reflected in the well-known in Pushkin’s lines:

 
The flash of wonder I remember:
The day you came in front of me,
You were like evanescent vision,
Genius of beauty, clean and pure.
 

V. Vysotsky described the feeling of admiration in this way:

 
That evening I did not drink, did not sing —
I looked at her with might and main,
Like children look…
 

The feeling of admiration is called a “high” feeling, an “exalted” feeling. This feeling is one of the elements of love, cause love is not only passionate or tender, but also exalted. With exalted love they kneel before the beloved, kiss their feet, deify them, they call them “my bright angel”, “my ideal”, “my idol”. Often the expression of exalted feelings begins with the exclamation “O-O-O!”. For example: “O-O! I admire and bow…”

The exalted feeling of beauty is called a “pure” feeling. They say about those who experience beautiful and pure feeling: “His soul is beautiful and pure”. When say that it is necessary “to clean the soul”, then the talk is about deeply experiencing an exalted feeling. Experiencing this feeling, a person is “cleaned with the soul” from pride and conceit, from anger, envy and all other feelings not connected with the role of the Victim.

It is impossible to confuse exalted feeling with the exalting feeling at all – with feeling “I”, self-respect and superiority. An exalted feeling, unlike the exalting feeling of “I”, generates not excellence, but worship.

The exalted feeling is drawn to the “high” and “great”, i.e., to the Idol’s. The exalted feeling is the recognition of your “smallness” and “insignificance” in front of the “great” and “high”. Therefore, experiencing an exalted feeling, people worship. Because of striving to bow before the beautiful or the great under the influence of the exalted feeling of beauty, the role of Victim can also be called the role of the Fan or the role of Victim-Fan.

People whose character has the dominating role of Victim are modest and quiet people. They do not strive to pay attention to their person. They are very sincere people, able to feel the slightest falsehood or insincerity of other people. They are impressionable and sentimental. They differ in the subtle perception of colour, beauty and harmony.

If a person whose character has a dominating Idol’s, dresses like a rooster, a peacock or a parrot (brightly, brassily, pretentiously), then the person with the character of the Victim has a good aesthetic taste and thirst for “soft”, discreet shades.

These people believe that “beauty will save the world” and are ready endlessly admire something beautiful in their opinion. They grow beautiful, but useless and inedible plants – flowers. grabber is enraged such evident waste of time and effort, like growing flowers. grabbers say: “When you want to admire the flowers – watch how the potato is blooming. There is a benefit from it!”

People whose character dominating role of the Victim strive to surround themselves with beauty, objects of an art. grabbers consider objects of an art useless dust collectors and strive quickly “to sell this beauty when idiots are ready to buy it”.

If people with the character of the idol, like bright lights, chandeliers, illuminations, then people with the character of the Victim prefer a soft, muted light from a table lamp, floor lamp or sconce.

Unlike grabbers who trust nothing and trust nobody, people with the character of the Victim, on the contrary, are very trustful, inspired people. They are subject to hypnosis, easily enter a trance and meditation. They dream, sometimes hardly distinguishing dreams from reality. See colourful, colourful dreams. Having imagined something, they can believe in the reality of it. Sometimes they live for a long time in an imaginary world they invented. They are called charmed.

People whose character has the dominating role of the Victim tend first of all to exalted, spiritual love. It is not easy to achieve from them, carnal love. They should be cajoled so long as Don Guan talked to Ineza:

 
Leporello:
Ineza! – black-eyed… oh, I remember.
You have been running after her for three months
The demons hardly could help you.
Don Guan:
…Strange pleasantness
I found in her sad look
And dead lips. This is strange.
You, as it seems, did not call her
Beautiful. And exactly, she has
So little of true beauty. Eyes,
Just eyes. And glance… such glance
I’ve never met. And voice
Of her, it was so weak – as if the voice of the sick…
(“Stone guest”)
 

Ineza is an example of a person who has a character with dominating role of Victim. They say about such: “weedy man”.