DGB Personality Theory: Model 1: A DGB "Greek Mythology and Soap Opera in The Sky' Model Of The Personality (Updated Mar 2, Mar 5, Mar. 6th, 8th/09)

The metaphor of Hegel's Hotel can be visualized in at least four different ways each partly similar to each other -- and each partly different.

Two are 'Wellness Hotel' models, or at least can be used as 'Wellness Hotel' models. (They can also be used pathologically and/or to 'map out' different types of pathology in the mind.) Label them respectively,

1. 'The DGB Greek Mythology-Soap Opera Hotel';
2. 'The DGB Philosophers and Psychologists Wellness Hotel;

The other two are different renditions of the two models above (using circles rather than squares and/or rectangles),

3. 'The DGB Greek Mythology Solar System Model';
4. 'The DGB Philosophers and Psychologists Solar System Model.

We will come back to the latter three models later.

In this essay, let us briefly delve into Model 1.

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1/ The DGB 'Greek Mythology and Soap Opera In The Sky' Model


This model draws mainly from Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and others...), Jungian Psychology (Carl Jung), Adlerian Psychology (Alfred Adler), Transactional Analysis (Eric Berne), and Gestalt Therapy (Fritz Perls).

The model is to be viewed as an 'As If' or 'Metaphorical' model, not something to be taken literally or that we can physically see and/or divide.

When I refer to different 'rooms' in the personality, these can also be viewed as different 'ego states' and/or 'energy centres'.

When I refer to the concept of 'Archetypes', these can be divided into at least three types:

1. 'God-Archetypes': such as...'Zeus', 'Apollo', 'Dionysus', 'Narcissus', 'Eros', 'Aphrodite', and the rest of the 'Greek Dieties'....(Indeed, why stop at 'Greek Dieties' if we want to press onward into different cultures and historical periods?) We stop where it is convenient, functional, pragmatic to stop...with a change in our own life context perhaps neccessitating or making it pragmatic and functional for us to modify our model accordingly...

2. 'Philosopher-Archetypes': Hegel's Hotel can be divided up not only into Greek Mythological Rooms classified by each particular 'Mythological God' but also into 'Philosopher Rooms' classified by each particularly important philosopher in Western -- and/or Eastern, and/or Middle-Eastern -- history. Thus, Hegel's Hotel can be divided into: 'Anaxamander's Room', 'Heraclitus' Room', 'Parmenides Room', 'Socrates' Room', 'The Sophists' Room', 'Plato's Room', 'Aristotle's Room'...and so on....

3. 'Psychologist-Archetypes': Similarily, Hegel's Hotel can be divided into different psychologist rooms such as: 'Freud's Room', 'Adler's Room', 'Jung's Room', 'Berne's Room', 'Perls' Room'...and so on...

For our purposes here, we will limit ourselves primarily to 'The Greek Mythological God Rooms'...

The others we will take up more specifically in a different model...

When I think of Hegel's Hotel as a Greek Mythology Hotel, I visualize a place like 'Casa Loma' in Toronto, Ontario. Many different 'castles' in Europe would probably serve the same purpose.

Casa Loma is filled with many different rooms, and different types of rooms. But better still, it has 'secret passage ways' that go from different points in the castle -- perhaps an 'upper bedroom' -- down to the 'bottom' of the castle, or even into a real or imaginary 'dungeon'.

Now there are many, many 'Gods' and 'semi-Gods', 'Heros' and 'Villains' in Greek Mythology. I will only list and accentuate those that I believe to be the most important of these Gods, Semi-Gods, Heroes, and Villains for our purposes here. Others can be either added or subtracted at a moment's notice for theoretical and/or climical contextual purposes.

Hegel's Hotel in this model is made up of three floors above ground and three floors underground. 18 rooms in Hegel's Hotel are above ground and three are underground.

One floor underground (18) is a 'passage way' -- controlled by the Greek God, Hermes (Messenger to and from The Underground) -- to the other two 'deeper' floors underground -- (19) 'Freud's Personal Unconscious Floor'; and (20) 'Jung's Collective and/or Genetic Subconscious, Potential Self, and Archetype Floor'.

On the top floor of Hegel's Hotel, we have rooms for the aristocratic, the arrogant, the superior...(which is all of us at different times...)...I will call this 'Nietzsche's Floor'...

A/ Nietzsche's Floor: 1. The Narcissistic-Dionysian Topdog Room; 2. The Nurturing-Altruistic Topdog Room; and 3. The Righteous-Exciting-Rejecting-and-Anxiety-Provoking Topdog Room;

On the bottom floor just above ground, we have rooms for the meek, the mild, the insecure, the inferior, the inadequate, the underdogs, and the orthodox-co-operative...(which is all of us at different times...)...I will call this 'Adler's Floor'...

B/ Adler's Floor: 4. The Narcissistic-Dionysian ('Bad Boy' or 'Bad Girl') Underdog Room; 5. The Altruistic-Nurturing(Approval-Seeking) Underdog Room; and 6. The Rebellious (Righteous)Underdog Room.

In between the top floor and the bottom floor above ground in Hegel's Hotel, we have... "Zeus and His Lobbyists' Floor"


C/ Zeus' Floor: 7. Apollo's Room/Ego (emphasizing reason, truth, and justice); 8. Aphrodite's and Eros' Room/Ego (emphasizing romance, passion, creativity, imagination, the arts, nature...); 9. Dionysus' Room/Ego (emphasizing pleasure, hedonism, sensuality, sexuality, wine, celebration, dancing...); 10. Hera's Room/Ego (emphasizing marriage and family values, solidarity, rootedness, togetherness...); 10. Gaia's Room/Ego (emphasing the earth and environment, staying rooted on earth, and making sure that the earth and our natural environment can continue to support us...); 11. Hephestrus' Room/Ego (emphasizing fire -- and 'fire' in the personality...); 12. Poseidon's Room/Ego (emphasizng water...and the calming force of water...); 13. Hermes' Room/Ego (Messenger to and from The Underground...for good or bad reasons...); 14. Demeter's Room/Ego (emphasizing the food and agriculture that we need to continue to support us here on earth); 15. Artemis' Room/Ego (emphasing the hunt as it is needed to support us here on earth...); 16. Athena's Room/Ego (emphasizing the domestic arts and crafts); 17. Aries' Room (emphasizing war -- democratic, diplomatic, and rhetorical war when it is needed; as a last and only last resort 'the physical war of self-defence'...); 18. Zeus' Room/Ego (God of Gods, Executive Ego of all other Ego-States...)

Again, all of these different 'rooms' in Hegel's Hotel can also be viewed as 'Ego States' and/or 'Energy Centres'. They can also be viewed as being like 'political special interest or lobbyist groups' lobbying for the attention of The Central Executive Ego (Zeus) and the 'fulfillment of each ego-state's/lobbyist's particular set of wishes'.


We will sit on this model for a little while before we start to extrapolate on it more and work it through.

I think we may have a decent model to work with here.

For those of you who may be familiar with some of my other essays, you may recall that in one of my essays I asked the question:

'Where do Gods, Idols, Myths, Philosophers, and Psychologists all meet?'

Answer: 'They meet on the shores of DGB Personality Theory'.

So here we are again -- getting ready to go deeper into one of our conceptualized models of the personality.

Enough for today. I'm late for work. And tomorrow's my birthday. I've booked off work and plan to spend the day and night in Niagara Falls. No writing tomorrow. So call this my 2009 'birthday model' of the human psyche -- put together a day before the 102nd anniversary of Freud and Jung meeting together for the first time on a cold Sunday, March 3rd, 1907. (And 'polished' up on three different days after I came back.)

-- dgb, Mar. 1st-2nd, further modified and updated March 5th,6th, 8th, 2009.

-- David Gordon Bain