Psychological Profile of a Mid-Life Crisis
PERSONALITY PROFILE: Usually male. Most often someone who percieves that he has not met all of his goals in life because of various circumstances. Occurs most often during midlife crises self evaluation.
The transition point can be nearly sudden but usually takes a few years. It grows with age and is almost always conservative/reactionary in nature. It occurs simultaneously with the realization that one's potential and one's reality become juxtaposed near the end of some finite measure of one's own life.
TURNING POINT: Realization of circumstance. Desire to attain some degree of power or control over one's new circumstances.
MANIFESTATION: Identity with powerful mass movement. The weakened individual thus becomes identified with larger more powerful group. His new identity renders him more powerful.
He now speaks more loudly and with more self assured conviction than before. He is larger and can point to something higher than he.
WHO HE IS: A loud follower of the Tea Party, a "because they said" Republican, Yellow Dog Democrat, a newly born again Christian, and in extreme cases a follower of some mass hysteria movement--Hitler, Stalin, etc.- He is also one who parades his pit bull around because now he identifies with something grander than his own insignificant self--Such is to live and identify vicariously through a higher symbol.
Not a new idea but interesting to revisit...
The transition point can be nearly sudden but usually takes a few years. It grows with age and is almost always conservative/reactionary in nature. It occurs simultaneously with the realization that one's potential and one's reality become juxtaposed near the end of some finite measure of one's own life.
TURNING POINT: Realization of circumstance. Desire to attain some degree of power or control over one's new circumstances.
MANIFESTATION: Identity with powerful mass movement. The weakened individual thus becomes identified with larger more powerful group. His new identity renders him more powerful.
He now speaks more loudly and with more self assured conviction than before. He is larger and can point to something higher than he.
WHO HE IS: A loud follower of the Tea Party, a "because they said" Republican, Yellow Dog Democrat, a newly born again Christian, and in extreme cases a follower of some mass hysteria movement--Hitler, Stalin, etc.- He is also one who parades his pit bull around because now he identifies with something grander than his own insignificant self--Such is to live and identify vicariously through a higher symbol.
Not a new idea but interesting to revisit...