Roth is the writer that totally divides opinion between me and my wife - she loathes him with such a passion. furious with him and constantly slagging him off for writing about women whereas i do love him and have done for the better part of thirty years. i think the early stuff is funny and transgressive and aggressively political and the later stuff is someone really trying to pick apart America. so i suppose I know why people don't like him but I do.
i like you jenks but you shouldnt be allowed to choose your own reading material. your taste is utterly irredeemable.
2. (Leary)The emotional-locomotion circuit (Wilson)The anal territorial circuit[18][19]
The emotional-territorial circuit is imprinted in the toddler stage. It is concerned with domination and submission, territoriality, etc.
The imprint on this circuit will trigger one of two states:
Dominant, aggressive behavior. This imprint creates an 'alpha' social attitude. Equivalent to the 'top dog' position in the model of Fritz Perls, to 'I'm OK' in the 'life positions' model of Transactional analysis, and to master morality in the model of Friedrich Nietzsche.[20]
Submissive, co-operative behavior. Equivalent to the 'bottom dog' position in the model of Fritz Perls, to 'I'm not OK' in the life positions model and to Nietzschean 'slave morality'.
This circuit is activated by depressant drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines.[citation needed] This circuit appeared first in territorial vertebrate animals and is preserved across all mammals. It corresponds to the mammalian brain of triune brain theory. Robert Anton Wilson equated this circuit with the anal stage in the Freudian theory of psycho-sexual development. This circuit introduces a 2nd spatial dimension; up/down.[citation needed]
The first and second circuits both imprint in a binary fashion: trust/suspicion and dominance/submission.[21] Thus there are four possible ways of imprinting the first two circuits:
Trusting 1st circuit and dominant 2nd circuit. I'm OK; you're OK. Friendly strength in the Interpersonal Circumplex. Fire in the four elements model.[22] Choleric in the four humors model.[23]
Trusting 1st circuit and submissive 2nd circuit. I'm not OK; you're OK. Friendly weakness. Water in the four elements model. Phlegmatic humor.
Suspicious 1st circuit and dominant 2nd circuit. I'm OK; you're not OK. Unfriendly strength. Air in the four elements model. Sanguine humor.
Suspicious 1st circuit and submissive 2nd circuit. I'm not OK; you're not OK. Unfriendly weakness. Earth in the four elements model. Melancholic humor.