Interviews - Wolf

In this video I interviewed Wolf. Wolf's interview is embedded below.

Some observations:

• Modest range of gesticulation
• Even-keeled, unstructured "go with the flow" nature, open-minded.

Some verbal themes:

• Conscious preoccupation between boredom and joy, not in terms of driving interests but in terms of immediately lived activity and surroundings. Ego preference to see the world as "nonboring."
• Dismisses restrictions imposed on the self. I interpret a rejection of restriction of self-expression. This theme comes up again and again and relates to the preference to see the world as nonboring. (Recall imagery of the "sterility" and perhaps "blindness" of modern society with its bureaucracy). Later he described himself offhand as "rebellious."
• Easily bored disposition, describes short attention span, easily "lonely." Broadly optimistic but also mildly "manic-depressive" disposition, which is understated and underrepresented by the ego narrative. Somewhat peripatetic attitude which doesn't always involve other people.
• Some pride over his success in productive, work life.
• "Theatrical" presentation, obviously situationally selective (related to "nonboring" expression of self).

I felt it was fairly easy to identify Wolf as an EIE. The key theme is the preference for freedom of self-expression (alternately, free expression, although he does not discuss judgment as clearly). But we can see he is an open-minded person who is stifled by a lack of openmindedness in others, which we can also interpret as judgment.

Wolf's emotional range is not overt, he is very sensitive to the interview context but also easily and willingly allows us a pretty broad window into his world. We can see subtle signs -- as in his commentary about his free-wheeling escapades and also about the correctness of fit of his theatrical approach to doing ghost tours. He also easily identifies himself as an extrovert.

Elsewhere he informs us that he is situationally quick to anger, although he denies that he is an "angry person". I would say that, the way I mean it, he is an "angry person" in the perhaps somewhat abstract sense of finding the world of physical limitations "boring" and mundane, which as I have written elsewhere is the way I see Si vulnerable in EIEs (and not as, clumsiness with respect to their immediate physical surroundings). His choice to see the himself as not an angry person this could be interpreted in several ways but I think it is an ego framing of these same observations, where we would not disagree over the observations themselves.

A few things we don't see -- we don't see any self-imposed limitation of Wolf's behavior based on his evaluations of the character of others. He mentions a lot about himself, his adventures, his idiosyncracies and his caprices, but he doesn't talk about the character of others virtually at all.

Another thing we don't see is constant fast-mindedness. We see an impulsive, but often thoughtful character. Not a character totally devoid of deliberateness.

The themes of rebellion and the idea that society is blind were alluded to more in passing and less explicitly, but these themes are exactly themes of the beta quadra.

The optimistically joyful, but essentially "rebellious" and itinerant disposition is also reminiscent of Geminatronix who we analyzed previously.