The lion on the Gryffindor emblem
The Gryffindor lion as a symbol of courage, self-determination, inner strength, personal values, and Nietzsche's transformation of the spirit.
January 26, 2025 · Anton Kolhonen
Rubric
Personality Types
A rubric about the spectrum of human existence between stable calm and excessive motion, shaping choices, reactions, and life strategies.
Human types manifest as different modes of existence that can be placed on a line from stable calm to excessive motion capable of disintegration. These differences are expressed in how a person chooses paths, maintains stability or seeks change, and how they respond to internal and external challenges. A personality type is not a fixed label; it is a dynamic that reflects the balance between the desire for stability and the need for change, setting a trajectory of growth or risk of disintegration.
Key ideas
- •existential freedom and choice
- •moral bearings and ethical stance
- •stability–movement axis
Practical application
Used for diagnostic orientation in the therapeutic process: helps see which strategies of maintaining stability or seeking change dominate and how they affect personal integrity. Applicable in analyzing crises, professional and personal crossroads, as well as in searching for a sustainable mode of development. Visual reference: the unfolding dynamic of the logo — birth → expansion → dialectical becoming → growth of opposites → productive unfolding → stable open structure of personality.
Key ideas⌄
- •existential freedom and choice
- •moral bearings and ethical stance
- •stability–movement axis
Practical application⌄
Used for diagnostic orientation in the therapeutic process: helps see which strategies of maintaining stability or seeking change dominate and how they affect personal integrity. Applicable in analyzing crises, professional and personal crossroads, as well as in searching for a sustainable mode of development. Visual reference: the unfolding dynamic of the logo — birth → expansion → dialectical becoming → growth of opposites → productive unfolding → stable open structure of personality.
Rubric articles
Four Clusters
Four clusters of attitudes toward good and evil: an author's psychological parable about personality strategies, humanism, and shadow integration, rather than a clinical classification of people.
August 20, 2024 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types⚛️ Science and Psychology
Psychology at School
Psychology at school: adolescent inner freedom, the educational principle of do no harm, independent choice, and responsibility toward others.
March 24, 2023 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types🛐 On University Education
Limits of the Possible
Limits of the Possible: meaning-centered motivation, discipline, cumulative practice, psychology education, and growth without a cult of productivity.
May 25, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types⛳️ Effectiveness
In the Midst of Life
An essay on life within crisis: breakdown and recovery as conditions for personal and social growth, when the search for meaning comes to the fore.
February 05, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
Missing Without a Trace
Market relations as a threat to humanistic conscience: a text about the normalization of humiliation and the loss of the human in the person.
November 21, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types⚜️ Humanistic Principles
Ashen Rain
Ashen Rain is a metaphorical dialogue about frustration, need satisfaction, discipline, humanistic psychology, and personal growth.
June 09, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen
Personality Types🔂 Patterns
A Binary View of the World
A philosophical text about the binary nature of the world: light and shadow, order and chaos, and conflict as a source of development for personality, society, and biological processes.
May 22, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen