Abstract: . . .  mean actually creating something entirely new from one's own unique reservoirs of ability and imagination but to make a design, to stage something, with the aid of software, new techniques, and materials to construct reality, and to adorn and fashion oneself, one's own body, apartment, lifestyle. For the I-am-me orientation creativity connotes a self-determined, all- encompassing aestheticism in the personal world and in daily life. The creativity of the active person with an I-am-me orientation is expressed in his or her „self-celebration,“ that of the passive-participative type in an imparted creativity. Here „imparted“ denotes a „made“ creativity. The teacher must be creative or the artistic technique. Creativity is then an attribute of the design of the piece of clothing or its material. The brand name of the chair or the furniture is creative. c) The quest for the dissolution of boundaries A particularly typical personality trait of the I-am-me oriented person is his or her striving for the dissolution of boundaries and the experience of boundlessness. The active type clearly demonstrates the wish to liberate himself or herself from all possible restrictions; he or she loves everything that is risky, borderline, boundless, unconventional, extreme, impossible—whether in recreational sports, literature, film, or in vacation activities. Above all he or she wants to experience himself or herself as being sovereign over time and space. The active type stays up all night and sleeps all day and thrives on being „on the go“—both literally and figuratively. Mobility is his or her home; the goal of being underway is being un- derway to nowhere. His or her motto is taken from Heraclitus: „panta rhei „(„eve- rything is in flux“). Boundaries are there to be overcome. Religion and spirituality are means of opening the self toward the inner realm or the realm beyond. Psychotherapy, too, is given a similar significance, since it can overcome inner boundaries, or, with the assistance of a „transpersonal psychotherapy,“ also overcome boundaries to the beyond. The only dimension of time which is recognized is the moment, the present, the here and now. Everything of duration is deplorable, and the most ter- rible punishment imaginable is boredom. Another form of positing the ego through the dissolution of boundaries is the staging of illusionary and fictive reali- ties, in which time and place, finiteness, distress and suffering, failure, and disap- pointment are things of the past. The passive-participative person with an I-am-me orientation also seeks ex- periences involving the blurring of boundaries yet prefers mass events like open- air concerts, techno parades, or mammoth sporting events. Drugs like alcohol or ecstasy (MDMA) play an essential role when boundaries are blurred in experi- ences enhancing we-ness. Page 5 5 d) The need to exercise control A further character trait of the I-am-me oriented person is his or her need to exer- cise control and to direct . . .
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