A GAP-DGB Multi-Dialectic, 25-Part Model Of The Personality

Let us try this over again and get our model of the personality here down to something more easily manageable and understandable. Okham's Razor. (All else being equal, the simplest interpretation is usually the best one.) KISS: KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.

Having said this, I am trying to integrate a lot of different models here -- to integrate 'the best of the best' if you will. So this model is not going to be 'simple' but hopefully with some 'history' and 'explanation' added to it, it will be better understandable.

Synonyms for 'Personality' or 'Personality Structure' in this GAP-DGB domain here will be: 'Ego', 'Psyche', 'Self', and 'Character Structure'.

View the personality as being like a 'large government' or 'corporation' with numerous different 'departments' (or 'compartments') that have separate functions that are all designed to come together to fulfill the overall function of the government/corporation/personality.

Some of the other personality models that are out there and which I will simply skim over quickly without giving full justice to, are:

1. The Gestalt Model (Fritz Perls): '2 Department Model': a) 'Topdog'; b) 'Underdog';

2. The Adlerian Model (Alfred Adler): '2 Department Model': a) 'Inferiority Feeling' ('Self-Esteem Deficiency', 'One Down Position', 'Minus Position', 'Insecurity Feeling', 'Unstability Feeling'); b) 'Superiority Feeling' ('Leadership Position', 'One Up Position', 'Superiority Position', 'Fictional Final Goal', 'Lifestyle Goal'); c) 'Means of Moving From a Minus Position to a Plus Position, from a) to b)' ('Compensation', 'Lifestyle Complex', 'Superiority Striving')

3. The Classic Freudian Model: a) 'The Id': biological drives: such as: hunger-food, thirst-water, sexual tension-release, aggression-release, shelter, heat, some might argue stability, rootedness (Erich Fromm), creativity-destructiveness (Erich Fromm), love-hate (Erich Fromm), transcendence (Erich Fromm)...DGB extrapolations: power, money, greed, narcissism, selfishness, revenge, dance, celebration, oral-obsessive-compulsions, addictions...; b) 'The Superego': social conscience, ethical conscience, justice, fairness, reason, righteousness, rejection, 'anal-retentiveness', 'punctuality', 'cleanliness', 'neatness', sadism, dominance, arrogance, 'righteous-narcissism', abandonment, betrayal, discipline, punishment, 'guilt-giver', 'approval-demanding', 'co-operation-demanding', 'acceptance-demanding', 'The Internal Object'; c) 'The Ego': 'The Subjective Sense of Self', 'Me', co-operation-seeking, approval-seeking, pleasing, rebellious, mediating between the Id and the Superego, conflict-resolving, problem-solving, reality-based, reality-interpreting, analyzing, postponing Id gratification, compromising, bending, choosing, caught in the middle between a rock and a hard place (between the Id and the Superego -- two dialectically opposed system of 'wants and needs and gratifications' vs. 'shoulds, and should nots, responsibilities, obligations, social promises, ethics, social values, morals, laws, customs, demands...

4. The Jungian Model (Carl Jung): Includes 'The Persona' ('The Social Ego' -- 'The Face We Show Society'), 'The Shadow' ('The Dark Side of the Personality, , 'Darth Vader' 'The Alter-Ego', 'Mr. or Ms. Hyde), 'The (Potential) Self', 'The Personal Unconscious', 'The Collective Unconscious', 'The Anima', 'The Animus', and 'the rest of the Mythological Archetype Figures'...and a more or less 'assumed' 'Central, Integrative, Potentially Healthy Ego'...altogether that is about an '8 Compartment or Department Model'...although nothing is fully written in stone here...

5. The Object Relations Model(s) (Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Guntrip...)

Melanie Klein was the biggest creative-(destructive) neo-Psychoanalytic force here
adding such concepts as: 'External Objects', 'Internal Objects', 'The Depressive Position', 'The Paranoid-Schizoid Position, and I will add 'The Paranoid-Aggressive' and 'The Manic-Depressive Positions'...to the other more standard Classical Freudian concepts...

Ronald Fairbairn also had a model that was quite interesting which included: a) 'the exciting object'; b) 'the rejecting object'; c) 'the morally idealized and anti-libidinal parent'; d) 'the infantile, libidinal ego'; e) 'the infantile, anti-libidinal ego'; and f) 'the central ego' identifying with the morally idealized parents. Fairbairn's model is a '6 department or compartment model' of the personality. (Harry Guntrip, Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, and The Self, 1971,73, p. 98)



6. The Transactional Analysis Model (Eric Berne): Built mainly from an 'Object Relations' perspective of the personality -- and simplified for the 'lay public' -- Berne created a model that looks something like this: a) 'The Nurturing (Encouraging-positive, spoiling-negative) Parent(-Ego); b) 'The Critical, Controlling (Structuring-positive, oppressive-negative) Parent(-Ego)'; c) 'The Adult-(Ego); d) 'The Adapted (Co-operative, Compliant) Child; e) 'The Free (Spontaneous-positive, Immature-negative) Child. That would make this a '5 department or compartment model'.


From these 6 or 7 'classic personality models', I derived and created the following GAP-DGB '25 compartment or department model' below.

Beyond the 6 or 7 classic personality models listed above, this model below also shows the influence I have received by studying both the history of Western Philosophy and basic Greek Mythology -- as opened up to me by both Carl Jung (the 'archetypes' and 'mythological gods') and Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' (1872).

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The GAP-DGB Model of The Personality (Psyche)


A/ 'Chief Executive Officer' and 'Advisors To The Throne'

A.1. 'The Chief Executive Officer' of The Personality (President, Prime Minister, King, Queen, Autocrat, Dictator...)

01. The Central Executive-Integrative (Hegel's) Ego

A.2. 'Advisers To The Throne'

02. The Dionysian-Egotistic-Narcissistic ('The DEN of Iniquity' (Schopenhauer's) Ego
03. The Apollonian, Enlightenment (Bacon's and Locke's) Ego
04. The Altruistic (Mother Teresa's) Ego
05. The Survival (of The Fittest) (Darwin's) Ego
06. The Liberal-Socialist's (Locke's, Marx's,) Ego
07. The Conservative-Capitalist (Smith's and Burke's) Ego
08. The Romantic (Spinoza's, Goethe's, Rousseau's, and Schelling's) Ego
09. The Creative-Constructionist's (Optimist's)Ego
10. The Destructive-Deconstructionist's (Skeptic's, Pessimist's, Cynic's) Ego
11. The Humanistic (Fromm's) Ego
12. The Existential (Nietzsche's and Sartre's 'Free-Will', 'Strive to be Superman') Ego


B/ 'The Aristocrats' (The Senate, 'Parental-Leadership Internal Objects')

13. The Oral-Demanding-Narcissistic-Dionsyisan Superego
14. The Anal-Righteous-Critical-Rejecting-Apollonian Superego
15. The Anal-Distancing-Schizoid Superego
16. The Oral-Nurturing-Accepting-Loving (Maternal/Paternal)Superego

C/ 'The Citizens' ('The Proletariat', 'The Middle Class and Peasants')

17. The Oral-Nurturing-Approval-Seeking (Excited)Ego
18. The Anal-Schizoid-Distancing-Depressive (Anti-Emotional) Ego
19. The Anal-Righteous-Rebellious-Rejecting (Exciting/Excited/Angry) Ego
20. The Oral-Demanding-Narcissistic-Dionysian Ego


D/ 'The Creative-Destructive Artists In The Personality' (The Deeper, Symbolic-Mythological, Subconscious Levels of The Personality

21. 'The Creative-Destructive Dream, Fantasy, and Nightmare Maker'
22. 'The Unconscious Lifestyle-Transference-Archetype Memory-Fantasy Template'
23. 'The Mythological-Genetic Collective Unconscious'
24. 'The Id'
25. 'The Genetic, Biological and Humanistic-Existential Potential Self' ('The Blueprint Of The Personality'

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Maybe I went 'overboard into the deep end' on this model. Or maybe I didn't.

Obviously, I am biased, but right now, I like it. I think it has many different pragmatic, theoretical, reality-based, and pragmatic-therapeutic applications.

We will discuss the more concrete details and applications of this model at a later date.

-- dgb, Aug. 5th, 2009.

-- David Gordon Bain

-- Democracy Goes Beyond Narcissism

-- Dialectic, Gap-Bridging Negotiations...

-- Are Still In Process...


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