Dry Fire - Introduction

Dry Fire—Introduction

Dry Fire equivalents in other personality theories:


Typology Type name
Ancient Typology Choleric
Classical Element—Fire
quality of Classical Element—Dry
Enneagram type — 5 — among others called as:
The Observer
External Declarations and Internal Conditions:
I want to know. BUT. I don’t want to love.
(+) Essence and (-) Fetor (or Stench):
(+) direct knowledge
(-) out-distancing
Carl Gustav Jung’s
“Psychological Types” 		Introverted Thinking Type
Hans Jürgen Eysenck’s
personalities 		Restless,
Touchy
MBTI®
(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®) 		Similar to type:
ISTP
Steve Myers’
MTR-i™ (Management Team Roles Indicator™) 		Ti — Introverted Thinking
Scientist
Raymond Bernard Cattell – 16 personality factors The nearest type:
Q2. Self-Reliance
self-reliant ↔ group oriented
Big Five The nearest traits:
— low Agreeableness
— high Neuroticism, (low Emotional Stability)
David Keirsey — typologies Similar to: Temperament: Artisan
Interaction role: Contender Role variant: Crafter: Instrumenting (Attentive type)
John Beebe — Eight Function-Attitude, Eight Archetype Model Similar to:
ISTP (Superior Function – Ti – Hero/Heroine)
Socjonics – Model-A
(A – Aušra Augustinavičiūtė) 		SLI – Sensorical-Logical Introtic
ISTp (naming based on MBTI®)
Craftsman, Artisan
Jean Gabin
Socjonika – Model-G
(G – Victor Gulenko) 		Quadra 4 (delta – δ)
SLI – Sensory Logical Introvert
ISTP
Craftsman
Jean Gabin
Socionics — Temperaments Receptive-adaptive socionics temperament
(Perceiving Introverts)

Type of character—Dry Fire—general diagram.



In the diagram above, we can see that one of the points is labeled as — Dry Fire. The Dry Fire point is also labeled — Conscious State.

Conscious State has this attribute that each type of character tries mainly to follow this state. Therefore, all types of Mandala of Characters take their names from the points where their Conscious States are located.


The next key states of the type Dry Fire, which also have a significant impact on his psyche, are located in the following places:

  • Unconscious State (or Complementary State) at the point:
    — Dry Fire,
  • Strong Self-Esteem State (or Power State) at the points:
    — Hot Air, or
    — Cool Earth,
  • Soft Self-Esteem State (or Vulnerable State) at the points:
    — Hot Air, or
    — Cool Earth.

These three states, although they do not play a leading role in our psyche, like Conscious State, they are also significant and necessary. And they have essential functions in the life of any type of character.

As we can see, Power or Vulnerable States can be in two places. So, these two points can put us into both Power and Vulnerable State. Simply put, this is because, for example, a given matter, problem, job, task, etc., at one time, can make us feel powerful or at another time—vulnerable.



In the next four chapters, I will show the four main psychological states of Dry Fire, namely:

  • Conscious State of Dry Fire,
  • Strong Self-Esteem State (or Power State) of Dry Fire,
  • Soft Self-Esteem State (or Vulnerable State) of Dry Fire,
  • Unconscious (or Complementary) State of Dry Fire.

Then, in the next three chapters, I will present three main areas of our psyche, namely:

  • Conscious Triangle of Dry Fire,
  • Unconscious Triangle of Dry Fire,
  • The Self Square of Dry Fire.



Jacek BŁACH


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