Perfectionist-Aggressive probably. They are prone to Paranoia, Paranoid Personality Disorder, covert sadism, serial criminal, and schizophrenia.
"Here we have an individual who attempts to streamline both his aggressive and perfectionistic qualities into a cohesive unity. How can he possibly do this? His aggressive behavioral complex tells him to forge ahead, to gain power over all others, to achieve vindictive triumph after triumph, to intimidate, and to be first. However, from his behavioral complex of perfectionism comes the subliminal voice, "Do it carefully, slowly, perfectly". Thus, perfectionism passivates aggression, and here we realize that we have discovered the passive-aggressive personality of the psychiatric literature. However, this character is not so much passive-aggressive as perfectionist-aggressive.
In a life situation where he has attained a relative equilibrium, or has achieved success in circumstances where he is not threatened, this type may appear as a quiet or fairly outgoing, well-mannered, somewhat stern individual. He may, like all other types, go through life uneventfully, although his relationships with others may be rather tenuous and distant. He may appear as a relatively content, careful, reliable worker who is persistent and pays attention to detail.
This individual, despite his basic passive-aggressive tendencies, may feel a strong need to interact with people, according to the dictates of the gregariousness that modern society demands of him. He may find himself, in fact, in a life situation where he is constantly interacting with others in more or less stressful circumstances. He may then appear in one of two different forms. In one form, he is an individual who sees himself as a perfectionist worker, but whose aspirations are constantly being thwarted by the imperfections or malevolence of others. He, thus, becomes the chronic complainer or chronic criticizer. In a second form, he appears as a fairly gregarious individual with a cutting, sarcastic sense of humor: the sardonic wit.
If this individual aspires to high ambition, his lack of the narcissistic trait means that his ambition must be vested entirely in his aggressive drive. Since his perfectionist trait does not permit the overt use of force, he must use it quietly, unobtrusively, insidiously, obstructively. To a casual observer it may not be noticeably visible. He becomes a manipulator, quietly accumulating relevant information, pondering over it, collating it, putting it into place, using it for insidious, obstructive attacks on others and using it to batten his defensive perimeter. As he becomes manipulative, he becomes more and more mistrustful of others, including his superiors, his colleagues and his subordinates. And in the general mistrust of others he becomes suspicious, cynical and paranoid. Hence, we believe that any study of the paranoid personality type might begin with the study of this character structure.
Continuing with a poorly adjusted individual who has developed a sense of motivation, what emerges is a moody, brooding character who isolates himself within his self-created magic circle of manipulation, suspicion, cynicism and paranoia. And whatever power he attains, and whatever recognition he actually receives from others, do not mask the fact that he is essentially a loner. If circumstances of life allow him to become a political or military strategist, a concentration camp director, a prison guard, a lieutenant in charge of a group of civilians, or a world leader with a nuclear trigger within the reach of his finger, then the road that he paves may lead directly to hell. To the extent that such an individual considers himself above others, he becomes their master and they become his slaves without rights. And since we gradually come to the realization that aggression is the root of sadistic acts in man, in a master-slave situation, we gradually realize that the perfectionist-aggressive individual in a position of power has all the potential for becoming a perfectionist-sadist, whether his acts be directed at a single person, ten million people, or an entire ethnic group.
Here we discover an important facet of sadism in man. Diffusely directed aggressive activities whose aim is to subjugate people into submission and to cause them physical or psychic pain is rooted not only in the open aggression of an A, NA, or NPA type, but also in the perfectionist aggression of a PA type. Thus, we might ask ourselves if the danger to the world lies not so much in an arrogant steamroller as in a cynical, brooding loner. It should not escape us that here we have identified a personality type of another tyrannical despot who has time and time again throughout history caused the deaths of countless innocent people. And we must examine whether he is inherently a self-destructive type.
No less harrowing, on a smaller scale, is a PA individual who has been subjected to unfortunate circumstances during his years of nurturing and growth, and finds himself a suspicious loner at maturity. One of his inner voices is telling him "Be strong -- Be powerful -- Achieve triumph over others." Another voice is telling him "Direct your efforts -- Choose carefully -- Do it slowly, perfectly, over and over again until it is just right". It does not take much imagination to surmise that here we have identified one type of a ritualistic criminal, the quiet individual who chooses his victims carefully and is driven to perpetrate a series of stereotyped criminal acts. This is an individual who cannot, of course, show remorse. He is, in fact, following the inner dictates of his very soul.
The reader will appreciate that the implications of sadistic trends in the human character are of utmost importance. Chapter 8 considers this topic in detail.
The PA character structure, we propose, may also be the source of other character disorders that have been described by psychiatrists. First, it is probable that the condition known as "folie a deux" is based on the symbiotic involvement of two individuals having the PA character structure. This condition is a psychotic disorder in which two schizoid persons, usually members of the same family, mutually share similar paranoid delusions. Second, it is possible that many litigious individuals described under the category of "compensation neuroses" are of the PA character type.
On a personal level, the PA type, of course, "plays the game" of dominance and submission, becomes involved in subjugation dependencies, and is subject to incitement from a quiet state to the perfectionist-aggressive rage. This begins as a period of outwardly directed seething, and then with the slightest provocation bursts into a directed aggressive-vindictive rage (see Plate 21).
When dominated, this individual enters a PA- state of schizoid behavior, since he lacks any narcissistic component of ambition. He must thus attempt, almost at all costs, to maintain a position of dominance. Finally, if he is dislodged from his position of dominance, and hopelessness sets in, then he is subject to a deep abject state of schizoid depression."
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