3 - The Displayer

Relation Instinct · Domain of Creativity

The Relation Instinct's fundamental concern is living with others, expressed as "Who am I with?" - a preoccupation with Emotions of love or hate rooted in the chest/heart center. The three Fixations of the Living Group approach reality from this perspective, manifesting in patterns connected to the child's history with the father. The Displayer is fixated in the Domain of Creativity and receives the full force of the Living Group's process, making it the most deficient in relational ability. Perceiving paternal disinterest and neglect, they compensate through dramatic self-display, theatrical efficiency, and attention-seeking behavior. This fixation obscures the Divine Principle of No Change (Harmony), resulting in a personality that appears creative and efficient while internally experiencing profound disconnection, deceit, and a compulsive need for audience approval.

Initial Trauma
The initial trauma comes from perception of a disinterested father who failed to give paternal attention and strong protection. They imagine that by making their behavior full of drama they will attract the father’s attention instead of being ignored. They make constant efforts to become noticed, striving to display efficiency with exaggerated theatricality. They are enthusiastic activists but tend to overact as if starring in a production. Their lack of ability to relate becomes an inclination to direct people, events, or situations with exaggerated dramatic effect to demonstrate real competence.

Ego-Projections

• Idealized Self: Believe they are creative, efficient, truthful, articulate, artistic, with team spirit and a realistic perception of human nature.

• Projected Reality: Recognizable by ego-projections of a pretentious person, bluffing, histrionic, and deceitful. They are cunning schemers and show-offs, achieving very little.

Ego-Position
Self-deception. They assume a role or theatrical persona, imagining themselves as lead actors in a drama of operatic magnitude. They become convinced and carried away by their own theatricality.

Domain
The Domain of Creativity where entertainment and inspiration are found. Includes: actors, playwrights, writers, poets, artists, imagination, expression, innovation, invention, arts, crafts, graphics, movies, television, theater, music, dance.

Dichotomy
The two poles of the ego in this Domain:

• Schemer Ego: Creates their own personal universe of values/standards, wants to display an efficient approach in all areas. Excessively technical, crafty, tricky in getting what they want.

• Bluffer Ego: Has insatiable desires, uncontrolled imagination, dreams of glory, quick temper, bitter attitude. A pretentious person, a fake or con, phony in presenting achievements and abilities.

• Corrective Purpose: To replace manipulation and pretense with genuine skill and honesty.

Displayers swing between these extremes.

Ego-Balancers

• For the Schemers: Skillful (to channel cleverness into real competence).

• For the Bluffer: Truthful (to align expression with reality and integrity).

Ego-Insecurity

Pretenses. The ego-insecurity generated by their Dichotomy as either a cunning schemer or a blustering bluffer results in a fundamental insecurity around Pretenses; the fear that their fabricated image and achievements will be exposed as false.

Main Characteristic

Over-efficiency. Their main characteristic is Over-efficiency. They perform tasks with exaggerated enthusiasm and effort, which they overdo to prove themselves in front of others, yet they often end up with less than satisfactory results despite the display.

Analysis Across the Five Centers of Attention

1. Sexual Drive: Project creativity as heroic campaigns into sexuality, which manifests as hedonism. Love pleasure, want to be in command, enjoy variety with new fantasies and sexual games from overblown imagination. Can be flirtatious, flamboyant, vain, overly concerned with physical attractiveness.

2. Motivational: Sense of achievement and inner motivation are directly dependent upon acceptance. They are like performers whose self-worth depends on recognition and applause.

3. Behavioral: Engage in intense activity, preoccupied with efficiency, tend to be overly dramatic as if carrying the flag on a battlefield. Taking initiative makes them feel they are organizing and directing society to creative accomplishments. Make natural commanders, behave like theater directors or heroic characters in an epic role. Creating their own universe gives them a dictatorial and imposing character.

4. Cognitive: Belief in their own ability stems from an uncontrollable imagination, intense fantasy life, and dreams of glory. Their way to relate is through creative projects or social happenings to be accepted, attempting heroic tasks and conducting society in a creative way.

5. Individuation: Their individuation is the superego figure who recognizes the Transcendental and the Almighty. This internalized vision from the Spiritual Pole directs them to accomplish tasks, obtain success, and acknowledge the ethical value of others.

Passion
Deceit. Because they feel neglected and displaced by a disinterested father, they manifest the Passion of Deceit to bridge this distance. Deceit means being caught up in make-believe and being dishonest with themselves and others.

Immoral Force
Dishonesty. When disintegrated, the Passion of Deceit develops into the Immoral Force of Dishonesty. As they become dictatorial, they use dishonest trickery to manipulate others to obtain goals of commanding and being the center of attention. Seldom show remorse. Dishonesty with themselves is revealed by evaluating their own actions as if from a privileged position.

Door of Compensation
When stressed, they compensate with Over-Exertion. They extend themselves in hope of creating something valued by others to gain desired attention. Over-exertion to gain acceptance pacifies unacceptable internal processes, especially their lack of results and success.

Primary Defense Mechanism
Identification. They assume identities by imitating another person or fictional character as a role model, or identify with the values/attitudes of a group.

Secondary Defense Mechanism
Repetition Compulsion. Produced by pressures of unconscious forces, making them constantly re-enact the same patterns of behavior, desires and urges.

Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder. Characterized by excessive emotionality and attention-seeking. Demand reassurance, approval, praise; want to be the center of attention; display rapidly shifting emotions with inappropriate exaggeration and drama. Preoccupied with anxiety of being ignored and not accepted for special talents. Have no tolerance for frustration of delayed gratification.

Trap
Their compulsion toward creativity and inclination toward Efficiency becomes the natural Trap. From a higher perspective, this enables them to go beyond their Fixation. Their creative activity can manifest as harmonious productions representing Transcendental States.

Virtue
Justice. To accomplish the Efficiency of the Trap, they must embody the Virtue of Justice. This is Knowledge of true Transcendental Reality, as opposed to the deceitful world imagined by their schemes.

Ethical State
Integrity. The Virtue of Justice evolves into the Ethical State of Integrity; taking an honest and authentic role in a whole production, campaign, or project. Involves acquiring the Ethical State conducive to creative accomplishment by finding Knowledge to attain Spiritual Transcendence.

Way
Creativity. The Trap of Efficiency, the Virtue of Justice, and the Ethical State of Integrity transform the Fixation into the Way of Creativity. Their creative imagination is oriented toward real spiritual practices. By directing life toward transcendental creative endeavors, they demonstrate enormous capability in understanding their relation to Ultimate Reality.

Divine Form (Mind Catalyzer)
Harmony. They need to embody the Form of Divine Harmony to realize unity in the variety of creative projects. This Form catalyzes their psyche into acquiring true Creativity and Knowledge of Spiritual Transcendentality.

Divine Principles of Consciousness

The Virtue of Justice and Ethical State of Integrity open the Way of Creativity through the Form of Divine Harmony. This Form has its source in the Divine Principle of No Change. Understanding and embodying this Principle is the outcome; Displayers transcend their Fixation, understanding that the Universe is unchangeable in its Divine State of Creation.

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