Eduard Limonov

Your humble servant is of the belief that by choosing politics, a person consciously agrees to greater openness in his life. Public activity obliges. What is inappropriate in relation to a private person is appropriate, and even necessary, in relation to a public figure, since the fate of other people depends on him to a much greater extent. Therefore, Eduard Veniaminovich should not have any complaints against the author for making his character-ethical-psychological portrait public. Moreover, it was compiled on the basis of information available to everyone and is the result of a scientific and psychological analysis , which revealed in the character in question three subconscious properties that determine his behavior: self - confidence, a sense of irrationality, a sense of inferiority.

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Psychological states: self-confidence – a feeling of irrationality.
Combination of ego characteristics: adventurism - daydreaming.
Combination of Social characteristics: project-making - fantasy.
The adventurer directs his active energy to “escape” from everyday life to a dream. His dream has almost nothing to do with the reality that surrounds him. It was about such a “hero” that was sung in a song that was popular at the time.

And I'm driving, and I'm driving behind the fog,
For dreams and the smell of taiga.

Integral ego characteristic – romanticism.
To be able to achieve his dream, a romantic takes action to present unique goals - fantasies that require the involvement of human and other resources - in the form of visual, realistic projects. The ways to achieve goals, the means of implementation - projects, due to their untested nature, are also unique. As a result, the romantic tries to embody a reality in which everything is at the limit of what is accessible and possible.
The integral social characteristic is maximalism.
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Psychological states: self-confidence – feeling of inferiority.
Combination of ego characteristics: adventurism - selfishness.
Combination of Social characteristics: projectism - servility.
The egoist is concerned with gaining and maintaining a status that indicates the importance of his personality. In this direction he directs his energy. He is ambitious, he needs success that would make him famous and testify to his originality. With adventurous haste and feverishness, he tries to prove himself, grasping at any prestigious, from his point of view, type of activity that could “immortify” his name. These very often include activities that are considered intellectual: writing, politics, and any creativity in general. But since what he does interests him only to the extent that it contributes to obtaining the desired dividends and brings his triumph closer, the results in most cases are mediocre. Empty, vain glory is the goal that interests the selfish adventurer; Of course, he himself qualifies his aspirations differently. They seem to him majestic and aimed at the public good. Therefore, being rejected, he experiences failures very acutely.
Integral ego characteristic is self-love.

Wounded pride painfully endures criticism. Criticism causes anger and a spontaneous response, which often manifests itself in scandal. Scandal, in turn, serves as a banal technique to achieve fame at any cost - to achieve cherished goals, all means are good. This is exactly what the great fabulist Ivan Krylov noticed:

Eh, eh! - Moska answers her, -
This is what gives me spirit,
What am I, without a fight at all,
I can get into big bullies.
Let the dogs say:
"Ay, Moska! I know she is strong,
What barks at the Elephant!

The desire to be an object of fame, reverence, the need to confirm one’s extraordinary abilities - these are the motives for the social behavior of a self-confident individual with a hidden sense of inferiority. An integral social characteristic is vanity.
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Psychological states: feeling of irrationality – feeling of inferiority.
Combination of ego characteristics: daydreaming - selfishness.
Combination of Social characteristics: fantasy - servility.
A remarkable example of such an individual is the character of Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky’s play “The Marriage of Balzaminov” - Mishenka Balzaminov. The natural states of a dreamy egoist are daydreams, in which his status dreams are embodied, relieving him of the oppressive feeling of inferiority. The lack of real personal qualities, prerequisites and conditions for realizing what he wants does not prevent him from considering his illusions as an achievable goal.
Integral ego characteristic is naivety.
But reality, very far from dreams, is a stubborn thing. Time and time again she returns the naive dreamer to reality. In order to simply survive, he is forced, in the end, to obey the arguments of others and the voice of reason. And give up your illusions.
An integral social characteristic is compromise.
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The pairs of ego characteristics discussed earlier give, respectively: romanticism, pride, naivety.
The resulting vectors of pairs of social characteristics have the form: maximalism, vanity, compromise.

Since the desires of a romantic are sublimated on his dream, and reality is uninteresting to him, the only “object” in the surrounding reality that arouses his interest is his own personality, since it is always here and now. Being also naive, that is, without sufficient experience, virtually ignorant of life, his own person seems to him the most remarkable phenomenon.
Integral ego characteristic is narcissism.

The intention of narcissism is permanent and cannot be satisfied “from within” due to the absence of a partner. The compensatory reaction of a narcissistic and vain subject finds resolution in the search for “reciprocity” on the part of society as a whole. Moreover, the search is carried out in forms characteristic of a maximalist, and comes down to the “demand” of universal admiration. At the same time, others are only a means to achieve their own goals.
An integral social characteristic is narcissism.

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