Abstract: . . .  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 . . .
. . .  being and shaping his or her circumstances in such a way that his or her own will, strength, striving for independence and autonomy, and capacity for disobedience are strengthened in order to cancel the projection of his or her own powers onto the authority. To do the same with an I-am-me oriented person would be senseless, and would probably even lead to a reinforcement of this mindset. What productiveness means concretely depends on the type of nonproductiveness preponderant in a society. What, then, do productiveness and strengthening of the productive orienta- tion mean for the social character orientation that is I-am-me directed and becom- ing all the more dominant? My reflections on psychodynamics and on the psy- choanalysis of the I-am-me orientation suggest the following summary. The general goal is always to counter the I-am-me orientation assisted by „made“ ability with an experience of the ego assisted by human ability and to recognize and gradually reduce the dependency on „made“ ability. This does not require the rejection of „fabricated“ or „made“ ability but its implementation for the preserva- tion and multiplication—and not the replacement—of human ability. Whoever fights against „made“ ability (and for that reason never watches television or uses a personal computer) is still concerned with „made“ ability, comparable to the 8 For a thorough discussion . . .
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