Gittinger Seminar Notes - All Lectures

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Lecture 2 - R/F

• R/F initial response state. 9a
• Difficult to describe without R being negative. 9a
• R learns without understanding. 9b
• R focus vs. F awareness/confusion. 9c
• IF most "autistic". 9d
• F naturally feels inferior. 9d
• R must be trained to be cautious. 9d
• IF vs EF sensuality - self vs. outside. 9e
• R sensuality - perseverate. 9e
• ER selfishness - demand to have reciprocal relating. 9h
• ER disrupter in 1st grade. 9h
• IR 1st grade easily taught. 9i
• EF hyperactive, IF autistic. 9j
• ER crying drunk. 9l
• IR crying drunk on the inside. 9l
• ER and IR drunk drivers. 9l 9m 9n

Lecture 3 - R/F

• EF cry easily. 19
• ER girl tomboy. 19
• EF boy has to overcome "sissy". 19
• R cruelty due to unawareness. 19
• R humanitarian. 19
• IR minister and ER military / police. 20
• F sadistic to suppress being unfeeling in feeling way. 20
• R casualty of progressive learning systems. 20
• F casualty of rote learning systems. 21
• Good athletes, musicians R, but greats F. 22
• Theodore IF learned to be ER. 22
• IF least aware of external environment - so aware of internal. 22
• Truman Capote IFU writer. 22
• IFU non-participant observer. 22
• ER non-participant observer. 23
• IF exhibitionist. 23
• IR oppose IF exhibitionism. 24
• ER oppose EF voyeurism. 24
• R girl and femininity. 24a
• R tomboy. 24c
• R humanitarian. 24d 24e
• Cruel vs sadistic. 24e 24f
• R vs F training: rote vs. understanding. 24f 24g
• R and F and educational systems. 24h 24i
• Theodore Roosevelt IF. 24j 24k
• IF: Francis Parkman, Henry Melville, Richard Dana. 24k
• EF vicarious. 24l 24m
• IF exhibitionist. 24m

Lecture 4 - A-U

• A/U more a catalyst than dynamic. 25
• A/U how others perceive than the person perceives themselves. 25
• U might have parents etc. work harder at influencing. 26
• EFU under more pressure to do something about EF than EFA. 26
• IFU pressure to change. IFA "doll babies". 27
• EFU difficult in behavioral sense. IFU difficult due to lack of response. 28
• IFU (and IRU) hard to motivate, but when do are effective in learning social behavior. 28
• Example of IRU in Chinese culture. 28
• IRU conform to pattern, ERU negativistic to pattern. 29
• ER perseverates in denseness. 30
• U anxious about being misunderstood. 31
• IRU doctor. 31
• ERU doctor. 32
• Lyndon Johnson ERU. 32
• John Kennedy IFA. 33
• A reports happy childhood. 33
• IA hidden loss of contact (dementia praecox) hidden till puberty. 34
• A problem of expectations. 34
• EA more likely to react against A than IA. 35
• ERU strong need for praise/recognition, ERA suspicious of it. 36

Lecture 5 - EuRuAu : EuRuAc : EuRcAu

• EuRuAu exploits social suggestibility - masks immaturity. 41
• EuRuAu masks immaturity by social facility, but not in their control. 42
• EuRuAu does well in structure (example, Merchant Marine; example, in prison, but not out). 42 43
• EuRuAc aggressively resistant and hostile against social behavior. 43
• EuRuAu can be psychopath (selfish), EuRuAc sociopath (unpleasant) 43 44
• EuRuAc can be effective recluse. 44
• IuRuAc cannot maintain hermit. 44
• EuRuAc "mountain men". 44
• EuRuAc resists authority. EuRuAu responds well to authority. 44
• Rc live in accordance with principles. 45
• EuRcAu growing up Catholic. 45
• Rc develops conscience. 45
• EuRcAu if a crook, a "code bound" crook. 46
• EuRcAu very loyal followers. 46
• EuRcAu prejudiced. 46

Lecture 6 - Eight Primitive Types in basic era

• ERA Summary. 48
• ERA can retain ER parts due to A - being ER in socially acceptable way. 49
• Basic level comes at adolescence. 49
• era deceptive type because Au looks like it is not EuRu. 50
• All era basic level have common traits but some not common. 50
• era* can remain EuRu with Uc (a*) social adjustment. 51
• era gets along better with strangers than people they know - thus called "fickle". 52
• Fickle meaning relate to needs of others effectively but without emotional loyalty. 52
• Example of job hoping fickle EuRuAu. 52
• Not many career sargents (military) era, but some era*. 53
• era: fickle. era*: stereotype, loyalty, defined support figures. er*a: tough. 53
• era* tough because unfeeling. er*a tough because he is feeling. 53
• era* insensitive. er*a mean, even sadistic. 54
• er*a draw people to relationship, then break off brutally. 54
• er*a rapist. 54
• er*a* mean, plays role in mean way. 55
• e*ra more active than era. 55
• e*ra in love with no one, all superficial relationships. 56
• e*ra* maintains role in selfish way. Forester, tailor. 57
• era* Marine drill sargent. 57
• e*ra* aircraft mechanic, not drill sargent, insensitive, irascible, stereotyped. 57
• e*r*a very tough in unfeeling way, very aware, not realistic. 58
• e*r*a generalized hostility whereas er*a hostile (sadistic) specific. 58
• e*r*a* stereotyped hostility, maybe delusional. 59
• e*r*a* stylized unfeelingness, nastiest of era basics. 59
• All ERA adjustments become unexpectedly hostile. 59
• In ERA adjustments, A (or a*) makes it look like more control than there is. 59
• ERU adjustments across the board less aggressive and more hostile. 59
• e*r*u most intensely generalized hostile. 59
• eru basic most unpleasant of all. 60
• era fickle. eru* selfish, demanding.

Lecture 7 - Expressed, Suppressed, Repressed Adjustments

• I has feelings, but does not show them. Stronger the feelings, the less responsive. 61
• I under pressure to show feelings, appropriate feelings. 61
• As adult, if has control of feelings, under stress does not allow feelings to interfere with effectiveness in relationships. 61
• E "act-out". I "act-in". 61 62
• Expressed initial response state - stays like initial state. 62
• Expressed dependent on external help to not be totally expressive of initial response state. 62
• Repressed - guilty about initial response state. 63
• Iu expressed, uncontrolled Iuu actively autistic without much control over the tendency. 63
• Iuc awareness of felt need to not be to internalized. Depends upon external support to keep active. 63
• Iuc+ interested in the party - structured relationship. 64
• Iuc+ want people around all the time. Likely insomnia. 64
• Iuc+ insomniac will get up and wander around or find bar. 64
• Ic is suppressed I activities. 64
• Suppressed and disciplined I means using ideational activity in effective ways. 65
• Repression - I develops technique to control I by self-control. 65
• Icu inhibiting I but no really effectively using it. 65
• Ic+u+ catatonic - frozen repressing I with no kind of utilization. 66
• Icc+ suppresses I but uses it intellectually. 66
• Iuc+ socially oriented, Icc+ very intellectually oriented. 66
• Euu uncontrolled expressed E - overreacts to all stimuli in the environment. 66
• Euc aware of over-responsiveness - shame or anxiety about being Eu so works out control. 67
• Euc+ over controls - any activity than be non-responsive, non-relating. 67
• Euc+ protective of relationships in order to avoid showing feeling. 67
• Ic can relate with little tension; Ec always over controlled. 67
• Ec+ highly defensive - defensive person characteristic of Ec+ repression. 68
• Ec+u no particular utilization of emotionality and intensity - highly inhibited. 68
• Ic can work in noisy room being interested in what he is doing. Ec cannot completely cut out noise so will be fatigued. 68
• Ic in noisy hotel room - pull drapes and "to hell with it." Ec angry at hotel manager and wants new room. 69
• Ec+ "nothing bothers me" - but repressed but not aware they still respond - this is what "repression" means. 69
• E-children wet bed - during day tense trying to be controlled - relax at night. 69