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Phenotype: NA
Genotype: nnaa
Animal Model: Some chimpanzees
Inheritance pattern: An NA type can have parents of any
combination of the other character types. Two NA types
can have children of only NA types.
Infertility: No increased probability of miscarriages
and stillbirths when mated with any other character type.
Rage: Narcissistic rage (mass discharge of parasympathetic
nervous system), or aggressive-vindictive rage (mass
discharge of sympathetic nervous system), or combined NA
rage.
Also known as: Cyclothymic, histrionic, hysterical or
hypomanic-depressive personality. "The ambitious
predator"..
Photograph: Looks at camera. Simple, almost a smirk
rather than a flashy smile.
Gestures: Active or hyperactive gestures. Often seductive
body contact in casual social situations.
Handwriting: Variable, non-perfectionistic. Often
rounded, elegant letters in female.
Population Genetics: "The Demonstrative Habitancy",
having a high prevalence of NPA and NA types.
Susceptibilities: Hysteria, hypochondria, fugues.
Co-morbidities: Hypomanic personality. Histrionic
personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder.
Bipolar (Manic-depressive)disorder. Addictive Personality
sub-type.
The Narcissistic-Aggressive Type would synergistically
combine the mottos, "I am the most glorious" and "I
am the most powerful". Thus, lacking the behavioral
complex of perfectionism, his life is ruled by the
unbridled ambition of the behavioral complexes of
narcissism and aggression. We surmise that these two
traits, as expressed separately in the N and A
personages, would be found together in this individual.
The synergistic drives for both power and glory must
produce an extroverted, hyperactive individual. Given
the pride invested in "I am beautiful" and "I am
powerful," one would expect this individual to be
domineering, sometimes with an almost megalomanic
drive for ambition, in power, glory and sexual
domination. This individual lacks concerted perfectionist
qualities, hence his search for power and glory is
likely to be superficial, spasmodic and lacking in
direction.
When reduced to the subdued state NA- this individual
strongly resembles the self-flaunting unaggressive
narcissistic personage N. Of course, he "plays the
game", and with his hyperactivity and tendency toward
"hypersexuality" he would involve himself in many
compulsive dependencies, usually as the subjugator
but sometimes as the subjugated individual. As is
often the case in the dependency of subjugation, he
may become overtly sadistic, especially in frustrating
and in playing on the emotions of his subjugated
companions, of which there may be several at one time.
And he too, if opposed, seeks retribution in the self-
justified vindictive triumph.
This individual when frustrated can be incited to a
narcissistic rage, an aggressive-vindictive rage, or
a combined narcissistic-aggressive rage (NA rage).
In the latter, the aggressive-vindictive component
usually appears first, followed by the narcissistic
rage of withdrawal as the individual leaves, slamming
the door behind him.
Finally, as in all character types, he is liable, when
frustrated to a point of relative hopelessness, to enter
an abject state of depression. In such a hyperactive
individual, with ambition unchecked by the lack of
perfectionism, we are drawn to propose that he is in
some cases the histrionic, cyclothymic, or hypomanic-
depressive personality of the psychiatric literature.
<<Character Caricatures>>
This individual is driven by the instincts of narcissism
and aggression, without mediation of these traits by that
of perfectionism. Thus, the behavioral qualities found
in the N and A personages may also appear in essentially
unaltered form in the NA individual. Those qualities will
not be repeated in detail here.
This individual is an extrovert, there is no question about
that. He usually has a moderately loud voice, but more
than loud he is talkative, or outright loquacious. His
loquacity is characterized by bursts of rapid speech and
has a gossipy quality to it, often with the use of slang
expressions, sexual innuendo, and many references to current
fads. He is vivacious, flamboyant, flashy, theatrical and
somewhat agitated. He may have a hyperactive, labile,
mercurial quality and may employ openly seductive body
language, accompanied by agitated gestures. He may be in
a state of perpetual motion, literally being unable to sit
still. Others may comment that "He runs around like a
chicken with his head cut off". We might say that he
has flounce and he has bounce.
He may be described as charming, but his charm seems to
lack any real depth, as if it were a highly-polished
artificial veneer. He seems in posture and in manner
to be self-assured, but his self-assurance, like his
other qualities, seems to be superficial, as if it could
be popped like a balloon. In the same way, he may be
described as attractive, but more in the literal sense
of being capable of attracting the opposite sex, rather
than having the attributes of profound beauty. He does
not hesitate to talk about any subject, in public or
in private, with little regard as to whether it might
cause embarrassment to his companion in conversation.
In fact, he is practically unembarrassable. He may be
"nosey". To use American parlance, "he has a lot of
verve and a lot of nerve".
With his agitation and vibrancy, his eye contact with
others is often not good, and this is, once more, true
to the extent that he feels himself to be above others.
His laugh may be loud, penetrating and in the female
shrill, but may seem to be forced. He smiles easily.
The female can, with especial ease, flash a charming
smile at will and hold it indefinitely, as if for a
photograph.
As was true for the A type, he is basically aggressive
and must dominate over all others, in little matters and
in big, in every way and throughout every day. If he is
challenged, or even if he is not challenged, he may be
arrogant, brash and belligerent. If a stressful
relationship is to be terminated, whether with a friend,
a colleague, an acquaintance or a mate, it must be
terminated in the context of a vindictive triumph.
And the snarling, vicious, directed vindictive rage
is certainly in his repertoire but may rarely be seen.
In his perpetual motion he fills up his time with trips,
visits, classes and activities but is not really a
"workaholic" in the sense of devoting himself to any
real work. He is a dilettante. He is at his best in
task-oriented activities. He tends to lack any deep
sense of duty. Lacking in perfectionist qualities,
he has little staying power. His most reliable
attributes are his impulsiveness and his inconstancy.
He is, if you listen to him, intensely ambitious and he
may say so in those words, but there is a great
discrepancy between his ambitions and his real
accomplishments. Sometimes he seems propelled by
the jetstream of his own self-generated hot air.
He is extravagant. There is a definite proclivity
to travel, preferably by airplane, and it seems as
if someone else is always paying for his trip. He
is an intensely social person, a partygoer, and indeed
the classic "life of the party". And as he becomes
older, lacking the staying power for satisfying his
deep needs for accomplishment and affection, he senses
that something is wrong, that perhaps he is not "normal".
But more often than not he will acknowledge that of
course he is not normal -- he is exceptional! But
mostly in his own mind. Others do not see this.
His relations with the opposite sex may be characterized
as troublesome, turbulent and tormenting. Although the
range of variability in human behavior in the realm of
sexuality is enormously wide, there is no question that
many of these individuals place a premium on sexuality
in their lives. Some of them could well be placed into
the categories of satyriasis and nymphomania. He is a
coquette, a tease, a bird of prey, a vampire. There may
be a continual, compulsive search for sexual partners,
ostensibly to satisfy a conscious desire for a stable
relationship. Instead, there occurs only one turbulent,
tormenting relationship after another, and he views the
past in perplexed amazement as he recounts how many
partners fell in love with him, how many wanted to marry
him, and how many he crushed by leaving them abruptly.
Why, oh why, he wonders, cannot he really fall in love?
Why, oh why, does he end by treating his partners so
scornfully, so sadistically?
The answers to these questions are not difficult to find
and lie, of course, in the narcissistic-aggressive
character structure itself. His narcissistic self
tells him that he is a grand person, thereby laying
a framework of conceit. His aggressive, hedonistic
instinct tells him that he must dominate his partner
and get his pleasure while he can. And in dominating
his partner, he cannot give of himself to him. He, thus,
cannot provide his partner with the one thing that his
partner craves for the most -- his tenderness. And as
his partner clings to him more and more, all the more
there is established a master-slave relationship. The
master becomes alienated. His eyes become averted from
the slave. And he begins to treat the slave with all
of the tormenting, sadistic means that are available to
him in the repertoire of muted, and not so muted,
aggressive human behavior.
The slave for his part is usually a weaker dominant
type having an aggressive component, or a submissive
type who becomes literally enslaved in a chronic state
of subjugation. Here, it is truly fitting to call the
relationship a "morbid dependency", the slave usually
being totally incapable of extricating himself, however
illogical the situation. The affair ends when the NA
master moves on, sometimes sadistically playing off a
former partner against his new interest, setting the
stage for a new turbulent relationship. And this may
be repeated again, again and again.
If he marries and assumes the dominant role, then the
marriage does not portend well. Unless the real life
circumstances provide an enormous amount of compensatory
cement to the marriage, the master will torment the slave
subtly or overtly and finally leave him. If he assumes
the subjugated role, then for much of the time lie will
resemble the narcissistic N type, and his aggressive
component will be strongly muted.
The Editorial Staff
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