Conservation 2(SP2)

Pride in the Preservation Sphere

When Pride gets distorted by the self-preservation instinct, E2 becomes worried with his safety and conservation, manifesting flattery and pride as ways to guarantee advantage in the face of danger, resulting in a neurotic need to be, as Ichazo said, "the most important thing". If Pride is the passion to see yourself as higher than you are, than the conservation E2 is guided by the idea that they should be protected before all things.

Despite this, SP2 is the least prideful of the subtypes, as they feel like to do favors and be accommodating to receive love and attention in return. It entertains and pleases others expecting the right to be compensated back. This variation of the over-independent thus "alternates with complaints: from 'I don't need help' to 'no one cares about me'. He often resorts to emotional manipulation, blaming the other to achieve the satisfaction of his needs."

Ichazo called SP2 "Me first", a drive to use one's pride to get ahead of everyone, appealing to more timid and somewhat childlike seduction, being convinced that others must take care of them, feeling like they deserve the best treatment. Naranjo defined it as a need to feel worthy of being in the center of attention, combining childish seduction while also being temperamental when it comes to frustrations.

Trait Structure

Dependent

Of the three subtypes, this is the most dependent, although he shows a self-sufficient and independent façade. He distances himself from his family with the idea that distance will diminish his dependence, but it does not, because he compulsively establishes dependent relationships to ensure his protection and survival. He is chameleonic and his great intuitive capacity allows him to captivate others.

He seeks to relate to people with a strong character to compensate for his insecurity, but with this he “loses” his freedom, sticking to the role of being loved for being cheerful.

He projects aggression because he does not contact with courage, which would allow him to set limits, since he lives wanting to please everyone.

Shy

It is a very noticeable trait in this childish character. Shyness is related to the fear of exposing oneself if there is no certainty of recognition.

The passion of privilege hides a search for confirmation and a deep lack of self-esteem. Since this character does not want to acknowledge that he has limits and also does not contact this low self-esteem, he hides if he is not sure he will succeed. He prefers to hide behind “I don't know,” “I don't want to,” or “I can't,” in a childish way, rather than not admit that he does not feel he does not measure up. He also plays shyness and shame as a childish charm of a seductive nature, with which he avoids confrontation.

Victim

He tends to project blame, as seduction tries to make you see only what others want to see. The crazy idea behind it is that “to be accepted you have to hide the bad.” He blames the world for his difficulties and problems, otherwise he would have to take responsibility for his actions and change. It is easy for him to act as a victim when he does not feel understood or appreciated, although most of the time he prefers to close the chapter and leave the relationship.

Idealizer

When you are a child and depend on adults in every way, you idealize them by seeing them as great, decisive, capable, protective, independent, and determined. If those adults around him do not give him time to digest what is happening to him and thus make his own decisions, the conservation E2 learns to leave them in the hands of the elders.

The conflict is that he arrives at maturity with an idealized image of what it is to be an adult, assuming that upon reaching adulthood, getting married, having children or starting to work, the characteristics of an adult will magically and automatically emerge in him.

Compares

This type of E2 has an inordinately high criterion of competence, that is to say, a perfectionist and obsessive ideal self, which is what makes him so motor. This stems from a feeling of inferiority for not feeling loved and, on the contrary, abandonable. The difference with E4 is that he uses pride to get love and not to be abandoned. The conflict is that he lives comparing himself, disadvantageously and advantageously, with everyone. This fosters a disdainful attitude (raised nose), like royalty looking down on others.

Necessity

The underlying theme of the conservation E2 is that he doesn't feel valuable enough or worthy of being loved. So he does things for others, seeking to be needed, because he assumes he won't be abandoned and the other will return protection. He doesn't realize that he ends up getting overwhelmed and angry when he is asked for something. And, as he doesn't know how to set limits, he does it with attitudes of rejection and annoyance, looking more like a tantrum child.

Fantasizer

Many conservation E2s read avidly since they were children, seeking to feed their emotions. Claudio defines them in his workshops as constrained adventurers, that is, they long to feel free and to travel and to be able to do and undo and, failing that, they read. Above all, they read novels that allow them to break taboos, which they assume “bind” them. They feel that their reality is too narrow, and in fantasy they achieve things they would not otherwise achieve.

Tomboys

Physically they tend to be swallowing girls, reflecting less age than they are. Women wear little or no makeup and relate better to men than to women, behaving asexually with them.

Condescending

As the conservation E2 believes that he is only loved when he is nice and good, he tends to be condescending (he says yes to everything), without stopping to think about whether he wants it or not. This leads him to accept commitments that later weigh him down and he reluctantly fulfills or abandons without warning.

In condescension there is a disdainful tinge towards others, a look that considers them inferior beings in need of support and affection. Sometimes, it is mixed with humor producing mockery, sarcasm, or cynicism.

Hypersensitive to criticism

Difficulty in making self-criticism and receiving criticism from those around him triggers the core of devaluation he keeps inside. It manifests itself with irritability, crying and feelings of incomprehension and anger, since it awakens the fear of not being accepted and, therefore, loved.

It is difficult for a conservation E2 to accept his mistakes. Even if he knows he is incompetent or expresses it: that is far from being able to tolerate having his faults and shortcomings pointed out to him. This is seen in his outbursts and anger, which can end in emotional explosions full of claims to the one who criticizes him.

Envious and Fear of envy

The conservation E2 seems not to experience envy at first glance, since he compensates for his downward comparisons by showing an attitude of abundance and superiority. Envy, human and inevitable, is hidden as a way of covering up shortcomings and avoiding competitive disadvantage. He can live it secretly, letting out some lapses of indifference and apathy for the people he envies.

The person of this character not only hides envy to himself and others. He is also afraid of being envied, because it remains unprotected. To feel the envy of others is to expose that one is powerful, that one has something that others want. And she fears the aggression of others. Being envied, she could be the object of rejection, criticism, and disaffection; so she will flatter and dissimulate to cover up her privileges or most desired qualities, she would even show herself to be anti-pride, in order to be safe and sound.

Tender

The meaning of “tender” is someone who is affectionate, loving and kind. It generally refers to childhood, to explain a delicate and docile way of being because of one's young age and experience. The conservation E2 is a person who especially highlights these traits, who invites that soft and gentle experience. This characteristic, in which she conducts herself with utmost naturalness, is a way of attracting protection, of being cared for, which guarantees her to remain intact and away from the complications of the rough and tumble of life and relationships.

Possessive

The possessiveness of the conservation E2 arises from the desire to merge with the other, in search of the security that he is always available, to ensure that he does not live the experience of abandonment, or the protection and satisfaction of his basic needs.

Possessiveness also has to do with the difficulty of seeing people as “other,” different, and independent. For this character, this would be a threatening mirror of his fear of emotional independence. In the end, the other is an object over which to exercise power.

Jealous

Jealousy, typical of emotional characters, is in conservation E2 connected with the neurotic need to be the only one in the place of privilege, in the heart and in the life of the other. They also have their roots in the triangulation experienced as a child, when the father or the mother involved him in their jealous competition against each other.

Arrogant and Egocentric

The proud arrogance of this character manifests itself above all in believing that what he wants or thinks must always be taken into account and confirmed. It is not that he believes he is intellectually right; it is rather the arrogance of one who claims in the first place, a capricious haughtiness.

Sadistic

The sadism of conservation E2 seems contradictory to his tenderness and condescension. It is expressed in an evident way when he feels not consented to or betrayed (in the sense of not satisfied in what he wants). If the other is not at his service or attentive to him, he will easily be the object of raw rage and mistreatment reinforced by the intuitive capacity of this character to “catch” the weak side of the other. It is also sadistic in its way of coldly wounding and leaving the other with no possibility of rescue.

Paranoid and Controlling

Paranoia explores in an obsessive and emotionally blind way when the conservation E2 projects on the other the manipulative dynamics that he himself practices when he wants to please or conquer the powerful place of privilege. When he feels that someone does not support him unconditionally, or has to confront someone he considers superior for some characteristic, he immediately feels him as a rival, an enemy that can take away his place. There he deploys his aggressive and controlling weapons with the crazy idea of having the right to attack whoever threatens him, even fantasizing plots.

Castrating and Vindictive

If someone disappoints him or feels him in competition, he is very skilled at humiliating and attacking them to the point of making them a harmless rival. This manifests itself especially in couple or sibling relationships, as if he feels entitled to make the other pay the price for being submissive to his orders or whims. But also if he feels offended, criticized, or abandoned, taking away the other's power is a way of taking revenge and thus re-establishing his pre-eminence.

Self-indulgent

As a character based on the idealization of himself, he forgives everything. This forgiveness shows his intolerance of limits and reiterates his childish attitude, whereby everything must be allowed. He thus compensates for frustration or contact with low self-esteem, hidden by the permissiveness granted to a child. It is a trait in short circuit with the fear of being an adult.

Inconstant

The conservation E2 is intolerant of discipline; any work that entails effort or renunciation is seen by him as something impossible to sustain. Obviously, he justifies himself with lies or devaluing the objective. He also solves the obstacle by delegating the task. This dynamic is basic to remain dependent on the other and to nurture his pride, unaware of how this intolerance prevents him from regaining inner security as an adult.

Claudio Naranjo's Self-Preservation 2 Description

Conservation E2: Dad's or mom's chosen one. Privilege.

If the emperor wants me, let him pay me, because the honor of being with him alone is not enough for me.
W. A. Mozart

The conservation E2 has been the whim of mom or dad, the eternal child who continues to seek the favor of their elders. Just as the emperor (social E2) is the most intellectual, and the king (sexual E2) is the most emotional, the prince is the most active (and dependent) of the three. They take advantage of their fragility and “giddiness” to get favoritism. They are selfish, capricious, tender, and playful. Unlike the other two subtypes, they manipulate from a more childlike position, similar to how a child would do.

The conservative E2 seems to have the right. They may act as if they are superior to others and expect preferential treatment, becoming brazen in their expectation of being pampered and throwing a tantrum if they don't get what they want. Their logic is: “I give and do a lot for others; that's why I deserve special treatment.” As if, unconsciously, they counted at the same time how much they have sacrificed for the other. They can seem like a diva.

When it is for the other, it is the subtype most prone to exhausting itself, without taking into account its own needs. They don't get enough rest or time. They love to entertain at home and cook, but maybe They don't allow themselves to enjoy the dinners and parties they offer. They subconsciously want their needs to be met, but they are rarely able to ask for help frankly, instead waiting for the other person to guess. They tend, in short, to feel like a martyr and to think that the other is indebted for the services provided.

Proud of their sacrifices, their motto is “I have the right” (to be compensated). They come to this conclusion, as a child: “I am the most important thing.” And since then they focus on satisfying their desires; they put all their desires there. They are the most miserly with their things and the most selfish of the three subtypes.

The demand for rewards for many sacrifices coexists with excesses of food and drugs to inhibit aggressiveness. Denial of problems alternates with complaints: it goes from “I don't need help” to “no one cares about me.” They usually resort to emotional manipulation, blaming others to achieve the satisfaction of their needs. (And when they dare to express themselves, they rarely take the resources offered to them.)

In their least healthy expression, conservation E2s show great neglect of their physique. Eating disorders, psychosomatic syndromes, and hypochondriacal disorders are common. In any case, the repression of emotional needs or aggressive feelings can cause serious health problems.

In reality, E2s generally take little care of themselves, since their grandiose self-image makes them feel invulnerable.

E2 Conservation – Privilege

In the conservative E2, seduction can be compared to that of a child towards parents. Just as the social type appears large, this is someone who is seen as small, childish, in their attitudes and even in their physical features. Just as the social two seems hyper-adult, over-mature, and the sexual E2 —like Bizet's Carmen— appears as a wild, force of nature, the conservation E2 seems tender and childish.

Precisely, psychoanalysts called this infantile character. Ichazo used for his characteristic neurotic need the expression: “I, the most important thing”, which in his day I misunderstood when I thought that it designated the Napoleonic attitude of one who shows off his chest. Finally, I came to understand that, unlike an ambitious person's desire for importance, this “me, the most important thing” of the conservational type refers to infantile egocentrism, which is a desire to be in the center of attention without having to be important through qualifications, performances or feats. For the child wants to be loved not for this or that, but simply because; that is, for being what he or she is.

What is most prominent in this human type, then, is the need for love, the naked need for love, obtained neither by sexual seduction nor by social self-importance.

But why would a person have the need to remain childish or to act like a child? Naturally, there is some advantage in this. They like children more than adults, and babies are very attractive to people of a motherly disposition. We can say that the infantile traits themselves are seductive, and that the neurotic need of that human type is one to seduce through infantility — which implies a need for tenderness, delicacy and fragility, although it also implies self-centeredness and evasion of responsibilities.