Graphology at Home - Lesson 21: Draw Someone, B-D

B

• Body narcissism/egocentricity/immaturity: same sex figure unclothed and carefully rendered.

• Breaks in judgment/voyeurism (depending on area): transparencies.

C

• Castration fears or wishes: nose cut off (castration may be projected on opposite sex where nose is shaded).

• Change against spontaneous reaction to situation as symbolized by detail first depicted: change of detail in drawing.

• Character disorder such as anti-social personality or psychosis: deviant drawing with little evidence of anxiety.

• Chest fixation/voyeuristic tendency: V-neckline on male, female subject.

• Compensation for difficulty with interpersonal relations or masturbatory guilt: hands exaggerated.

• Compensation for felt inadequacy: massive shoulders on male (male subject).

• Compensation for felt weakness/guilt: large hands.

• Compensation for felt weakness/indecision: chin exaggerated.

• Compensation for inadequacy/indecision/fear of responsibility: chin emphasized.

• Compensatory fantasy aggrandizement: drawing that fills the page.

• Compliance/feeling of domination by others: puppet.

• Compulsive body image problem as in early schizophrenia: joints, fingers, and fingernails, carefully depicted.

• Compulsive/dependent/indecisive: elbows and joints stressed.

• Conception of self as dependent/helpless/insignificant: arms dangling at the sides, entreating facial expression, tiny same sex figure.

• Concern about sufficiency of intellect (brain damage, retardation)/ pride over intellect/intellectual aspirations (with possible grandiosity)/introspective of fantasy/preoccupied/somatic head symptoms: head enlarged.

• Conflict area: break in line, erasures, omissions, reinforcement, and shading.

• Conflict over interpersonal relations/possible thought disorder: head drawn last.

• Conflict relative to specific part of body: distortion of the particular part.

• Constricted erotic response/limited heterosexual experience/somatic sexual dysfunction: female characteristics under emphasized, female subject.

• Constricted/pedantic: minute detailing.

• Constriction/defensiveness/lack of assertion: rigid posture.

• Contemptuous attitude/tendency to think in terms of derisive social stereotypes: broad, flared or hooked nose.

• Coquettishness/seductiveness/self-display: long lashes.

• Decisive: uninterrupted straight lines.

• Dejection/feeling of guilt/lack of vitality: shoulders drooping.

• Denial or repression of physical drives/immaturity/regression: lower section of body omitted.

• Dependence on maternal figure: maternal figure rather than female sex object (male subject), male receiving something of value from female; torso of female upper half-emphasized (male subject).

• Dependency: chest emphasis, buckles, buttons, concave mouth, mid-line emphasis, navel, pockets.

• Dependency/desire for affection: overextended reaching arms.

• Dependency/feminine tendency/lack of assertion/emotional: circular strokes in formation of the body.

• Dependency/helplessness: fewer than five fingers.

• Dependency/immaturity/inadequacy and maternal dependence: buckle.

• Dependency/nutritional needs: long, weak arms.

• Dependent/oral-erotic: mouth markedly full, open or oval.

• Dependent/psychopath: pocket emphasis.

• Depersonalization/feeling of being controlled by outside forces: robot for male figure (male subject).

• Depressed/inadequate/withdrawn/schizophrenic: very faint line.

• Depressed state: acceptance of task to draw sketch with minimum protest, good initial performance, followed by obvious fatigue and discontinuance of task.

• Depression: narrow neck.

• Depression/discouragement: feet and legs drawn first.

• Desire to be woman/feminine identification: back of male figure to observer, male subject.

• Desire to escape from situation/fear/loneliness/mistrust: sitting on edge of chair.

• Difficulty in social contact/fear of aggressive impulses/passivity as defense against aggressive impulses: arms pressed to sides.

• Difficulty with interpersonal relations/masturbatory guilt: hands hidden.

• Discouragement/withdrawal: feet omitted.

• Disdain/refinement: trim eyebrows.

• Dissatisfaction with self: disguise (clown, etc.)

• Doubts about virility with compensatory virility striving/sexual inadequacy: beard, mustache, other facial hair (male subject-when the majority of the subject's acquaintances do not possess as such).

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