Small GroupsPsychoanalytic Group

Psychoanalytic Group

The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality typing.

Small Group Analysis

Small groups represent the intersection of four personality types that share common characteristics. Each group reveals fundamental patterns in how types process information, make decisions, and interact with the world.

Category's Small Groups

Owner

Group Properties

A strong ownership instinct and a weak exploratory instinct, leading to assertive and dominant behaviors.

Thinking in terms of 'us vs. them'; prefers to help only 'their own,' often at the expense of 'others.' Aggressively defends their territory, property, and rights. Tendency to impose prohibitions and punishments. Weak self-criticism, intolerance to objections and criticism. Poor imagination, dislike for probabilistic reasoning.

"Aggressor" Woman

Constantly tries to compete with men, including in erotic relations. Prone to irony, mocking the opposite sex. Likes to feel more competent than a man in any matter. Expects flattery, apparent weakness, and emotional instability from a man during love play.

"Aggressor" Man

Tends to violently dominate women. Likes to demonstrate struggle in love play. May allow himself roughness, sometimes causes women pain – both physical and moral. Expects submission to strength from a woman.

Nurturer

Group Properties

Values personal comfort, pleasant experiences, and simple joys. Avoids unpleasant thoughts, and dislikes conflicts.

Striving for simplicity, naturalness, and healthiness; practicality in everyday life, enjoyment from household activities. Sensory and practical care for others, animals, and plants.

"Curator" Woman

Or woman-mother. Tends to look after her male partner. Attracted to weak, yet intelligent men who submit to her in daily matters. Finds it pleasing to protect, support, and encourage them. She forgives or deems entirely acceptable such character traits in men that are generally not respected in society.

"Curator" Man

Or man-father. Experienced and attentive to the spiritual world of the woman partner, knows how to endear himself with protective courtship. Highly values female tenderness and vulnerability in love play, expects admiration of his life experience and skill.

Curious

Group Properties

Prioritize exploration, knowledge sharing, freedom, and a principled worldview.

Indifference to money and possessions; altruism in financial matters. Characterized by naivety, underestimating others' selfishness. Curiosity and inquisitiveness. Tolerance for ambiguity. Internationalism, lack of xenophobia. Values freedom, supports expanding social allowances, prefers managing people through rewards rather than punishments.

"Infantile" Woman

Or woman-daughter. Her ideal is a kind and experienced, well-adapted to life man, usually older than her. In the presence of such a man, she feels like a little girl, almost entirely dependent on him. In love play, she prefers psychological factors – heartfelt conversation, relaxing music, creating conditions for relaxation. Values indulgence and care above all.

"Infantile" Man

Or man-son. Independent, naive in worldly matters, expects business and emotional support from a woman. Involuntarily emphasizes his neglect, ruined abilities, and unfitness for the struggle of life. Respects experience and responsiveness to his problems in women.

Provoking

Group Properties

Imaginative forecasting of threats, and a readiness to adapt to aggressive environments for survival advantages.

Frequency of thoughts about the future; a love for storylines that unfold over time, including in one's fantasies. An interest in everything extravagant, provocatively shocking, unnatural, and painful.

"Victim" Woman

Her ideal is a physically strong man, reminiscent of superheroes from American action movies. She wants to experience his strength, resist his pressure, feel like a victim. In love games, she prefers various forms of struggle that ignite the partner's passion. Some of these women may have masochistic traits, though not all are aware of it.

"Victim" Man

Idealizes his woman. Adapts to her tastes, respects her willful qualities. Behaviorally, he alternates between highlighting his dependence and obedience and breaking free from control. Subconsciously expects commands, traps, and reproaches from a woman. Without such reactions, he involuntarily provokes them.