Interpersonal Attitude: Distrustful
Manifested in Behavior: Avoidant
(7) Archetype: Lover passive "shadow" form (The Impotent Lover)
Self-Image: Sees himself or herself as Inadequate
Interpersonal Attitude: Compliant
Manifested in Behavior: Submissive
(8) Archetype: Lover active "shadow" form (The Addicted Lover)
Self-Image: Sees himself or herself as Sociable
Interpersonal Attitude: Seductive
Manifested in behavior: Gregarious
Next, I want to borrow Moore 's thumbnail characterizations of the self-image involved in each of the eight above "shadow" forms as numbered in the above list to construct the profiles of the typical Reagan fans and the typical Obama fans.
In Moore 's terms about self-image, the typical Reagan fans see themselves as (2) assertive, (4) discontented, (6) alienated, and (7) inadequate. Moore's thumbnail descriptions of how people with these "shadow" forms see themselves correspond respectively to Millon's (ii) active-independence, (iii) active-ambivalence, (v) active-detachment, and (vii) passive-dependence.
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)