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Tim Burton
Schizoid personalities are often considered strange, out of this world because of their need to maintain distance from others, unusual, eccentric behavior.
The schizoid personality resembles a rebel who rebelled against the framework and rules of a standardized society. This aggression and protest can be expressed in wearing fancy clothes, in adherence to various subcultures (goths, informals, hippies), in creativity, which, at times, can even shock the average layman, in friendship with the same unusual people, outcasts, dissidents.
What the schizoid personality is definitely not focused on is to earn someone's approval, rather, on the contrary, it will play on contrasts.
The schizoid personality has a rich inner world in which she is quite comfortable. Loneliness helps to saturate with new ideas, knowledge, create.
It was schizoid personalities, thanks to their original thinking and unwillingness to follow the canons, who made a great contribution to science, art, literature (A. Einstein, N. Tesla, N. V. Gogol, M. Yu. Lermontov, F. Nietzsche, F. Kafka, W. Van Gogh, of his contemporaries - Tim Burton, B. Gates and many others).
Despite the fact that schizoid people do not give the impression of being aggressive, their fantasies are often aggressive and even sadistic, they like to watch horror films and write sinister stories.
The eccentric, devaluing, ironic behavior of schizoid personalities is a protest against human falsehood, the unwillingness of others to admit the obvious, to seem better than they really are, freedom from restrictions.
Schizoids tend to hide if they feel depressed or fear being absorbed by others, frightening closeness.
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Schizoids perfectly understand the nature of people, they like the role of a researcher of human existence. Schizoids make good psychologists. The work of a psychologist allows you to get to know people well, while maintaining a safe distance.
The main defenses of the schizoid personality are avoidance, withdrawal into the fantasy world, intellectualization.
Schizoids are very intelligent people and creatively gifted.
Schizoids can have a different level of personality organization from a simple schizoid character to schizotypal personality disorder or schizophrenia (psychotic variant).
Schizoids, using mature psychological defenses, direct their energy and affects into creativity and science. Violated - withdrawn, withdraw into themselves, become autistic.
Ernest Hemingway
In relationships with partners, schizoids can be caring, loving, but need isolation.
Despite the fact that schizoids are able to get pleasure from sex, they often remain indifferent to it, because sex may seem like a trap to them.
Schizoids are characterized by love at a distance, passion for an unattainable sexual object. Such a need for distance is associated with the characteristics of childhood of the schizoid personality.
Psychoanalysts who studied the childhood of schizoid patients noted the presence of suffocating guardianship, control by their parents, a systematic violation of their boundaries, dictate, which formed a defense - withdrawal into fantasy, dreams, as a way to protect oneself from complete absorption, protest, revolt against morality.
The internal conflict of the schizoid personality consists in the contradiction between the fear of absorption and the need for love. At the same time, leaving for a schizoid is less painful than absorption.
The experience of loneliness in childhood, misunderstanding of relatives, peers, and a feeling of deep hopelessness also forms schizoid defenses.
Conflicting and disorganizing messages and patterns from parents, gaslighting can become a trigger of schizotypal personality disorder, schizophrenia.
Schizoids are self-critical. They strive to assert their originality, uniqueness, sensitivity.
Due to the eccentricity of schizoids, they can be confused with hysterical personalities.however, they have a difference in psychological defenses.
The behavior of hysterics is aimed at seduction, and the behavior of schizoids is aimed at opposition, while schizoids are more likely to be burdened by society, in contrast to hysterical personalities.
There is, of course, a mixed type, in which signs of a schizoid and hysterical personality are combined, when, for example, a person is inclined to go into fantasy, to isolation, but at the same time has a strong unresolved oedipal conflict, fear of representatives of the opposite sex, sexual impulses, drives, transformed into sexualization or symptoms of illness, anxiety, theatrical behavior only in the circle of loved ones, and not in public.
There can also be a combination of opposition with dosed publicity.
With their opposition, schizoids can resemble paranoids. However, paranoids are more dependent on others in terms of relationships, they can be tormented by jealousy, demand love from a partner, take revenge, are too concerned that everyone around has something to do with their personality. Schizoids in this regard are more self-sufficient and not prone to paranoia and the manifestation of open aggression.
Schizoids may have a penchant for rituals, obsessive thoughts, as a result of which they can be confused with obsessive-compulsive personalities. However, the obsessive-compulsive person is "sharpened" to be approved by society, too concerned about his reputation, while the schizoid is least of all concerned about someone else's opinion. The schizoid considers himself the creator of his own laws and prefers to live by his own rules.
Narcissistic traits can also be inherent in the schizoid personality. But schizoids are not focused on prestige in the same way as narcissists, and they are not characterized by a feeling of emptiness, fluctuations between their own greatness and insignificance, superficial feelings.
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