4th Will/Volition - "4V" / "Serfs"

"Serf" (4th Will) 

The "serfs" are the nicest people in the world. It's easy to breathe in their field like no other. And not without reason. For example, the soul of the 1st Will meets any idle visitor at the far approaches with concrete bollards of its "I". The 2nd Will is more accessible, but penetration into its rubbery essence also has vague but clearly perceptible borders. The soul field of the 3rd Will is blurred and makes itself known not so much by hardness as by a nervous electricity spilled in the air. 

A different thing, the 4th Will, its field can be passed through, enter on a tank - there will be no resistance. That is why it is so easy to breathe in the field of the "serf" - it is discharged. Darwin with his 4th Will was recalled as follows: "Whoever was ever lucky enough to sit with him at one table ... in a close circle of good friends, and especially if his neighbor was a nice woman, he would not soon forget it. Everyone felt easy and simple with him, he chatted, laughed merrily, teased, teased, but not offensively, but only amusingly and even flatteringly; moreover, he always treated his guest respectfully and always tried to involve a new person in a common conversation. 

Outwardly, the 4th Will is practically no different from the 2nd Will. It is characterized by the same naturalness and simplicity of behavior, respectful and delicate treatment, serenity and openness of gaze. In fact, I myself do not undertake to distinguish between a "serf" and a "nobleman" at first glance acquaintance. However, as already mentioned, for all their essential difference, the Second and Fourth Functions are almost indistinguishable externally. 

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The picture of the universe living in the soul of the 4th Will practically repeats the corresponding picture of the 1st Will, i.e. the cosmos is a hierarchy consisting of two levels: the upper and the lower. The difference is that the "serf" does not automatically place himself on the upper level, like a "king", but on its lower one, assigning himself the role of a shepherd, a subordinate, a child. 

Hence, one of the most characteristic features of the 4th Will is its untimely childishness, which, due to its sincerity and simplicity, one does not want to call infantilism. In principle, the 3rd Will is also infantile, but it tries to masquerade as an adult and thus repulses. The 4th Will does not disguise itself, and so is very agreeable to itself, although there are features in its behavior which cause bewilderment and consternation. For example, JeanJacques Rousseau, having got under a blanket to Madame de Varence, even there continued to call her "mummy," though the character of the relationship obviously contradicted such treatment. 

Unlimited confessionality is the Achilles' heel and the most characteristic of the "serf. Tolstoy suffered for a long time from the fact that he could not write with the sincerity with which Rousseau's Confessions was written. And he suffered in vain. Tolstoy, with his 1st Will, simply was not allowed to write with the kind of reckless frankness that only the 4th Will is capable of. And it is easily given to confession because the "serf" has no sense of personal self-preservation, not dear to the Will - the pillar of the personality, the blow on which could seriously shock his being. For example, the Emperor Claudius was able to say publicly in court about one of the witnesses: "She was my mother's ward, from the maids, but she always respected me as a master, - I say this because in my house even now some do not recognize me as a master, "- and not to be embarrassed at all. And not to be embarrassed because the publicity was given to what he, the emperor, already knew: he is not a person and, most importantly, not a person, not at all concerned about his impersonality. 

Low self-esteem is an incomparable, priceless gift. It makes the life of a "serf" as easy and unclouded as anyone else's, and the psyche so stable that even time, which inevitably leaves notches on our soul, unscrewing the psychic mechanism, has no power over the 4th Will. When there is no solid basis of personality, flogging is an indispensable companion of life, is no more effective than a swamp flogging. 

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The family is the first social unit to which the "serf" entrusts his will once and for all. His age and social status have no effect on his place in the family, he feels like a child of his parents for the rest of his life and does not even try to get on the same footing with them over time. Two of my buddies, men who have already lived and turned gray, still hide their addiction to tobacco from their parents, as if nothing had changed since the happy childhood days when they could be punished for finding cigarettes in their pockets. 

Next comes the school. Here the "serf" stands out for his exemplary behavior. Young Seryozha Kostrikov (Kirov) shocked the teachers with his "exemplary behavior, even unparalleled," and his classmates remembered him by saying "Thank you" right and left, for which he was nicknamed "Thank you". 

The example of Kirov, now an adult, clearly shows the danger to the "serf" that lurks in his submissiveness, childishness, and sincerity. When a group of delegates to the 12th Congress of the CPSU came to Kirov and offered him the post of head of the party, he not only flatly refused, but also reported this visit to Stalin, thus signing his and their death warrant. 

Only the 4th Will could behave this way, and no other. If, for example, the 1st Will were approached with a proposal for supreme power, it would, without hesitation, respond: "Of course, it is high time! - and would rush into action. The 2nd Will would not show enthusiasm for this, but would agree, conditioning its agreement on the will of the majority of the congress. The 3rd Will refused, but would not inform Stalin about the proposal, but would begin a secret probe for the overthrow of the tyrant in the future. Kirov went his own way, the way of the 4th Will, and we can say that his death was psychotypically predetermined. 

Kirov's example is not yet the limit of the suicidal servile psychology of the 4th Will. It happens that the servility of the "serfs" acquires directly pathological forms, leading them to the disease called in psychiatry "lunacy in tandem. At the beginning of XIX century in Berlin, was recorded the following case: "The patient - an elderly woman, convinced that a high-ranking official is going to marry her, gave this idea to her husband, both were placed in the Charité, where the patient soon died, and her husband was completely recovered. Doctors at first tried to explain this case by some kind of "mental infection," but the geography of the phenomenon soon put an end to speculation. There appeared a monograph by Régis, "Madness in Two," in which it was said in other words about the phenomenon now known to us, the subject of conversation - the 4th Will, which in the example given, of course, was in the husband and which, standing above the Will of the wife, drove him to insanity. 

The 4th Will is a zombie, but a living, warm one, unlike the classic zombie - a walking dead man. Therefore, the problem of zombification lies not in the field of psychotronic weapons, it is useless, and experiments of special services have shown that the psyche can be broken, but it cannot be manipulated. Almost all attempts to manipulate the human brain remind me of attempts to change files on a hard disk with a crowbar (those who know computers know what this is). Modern knowledge is even more unprepared for zombification, because even the place where the Will is located in the brain is not known, let alone how to influence it (the attempts of Nazi doctors to find some "crystals of will" in the pituitary gland were a failure). This does not mean that zombies are impossible, they are possible, there are many of them, but it is another matter that distinguishing them from the social mass requires serious psychological work and subtle intuition. 

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The 4th Will is the most faithful spouse, the most loyal subordinate. But here is the paradox, it is the "serf" who often looks from the outside as a terrible rebel and frontee. For example, "soft as wax" Bukharin was considered almost a chronic and almost official head of opposition to Lenin, Molotov was the only one who openly argued with Stalin, and this despite the fact that both had the 4th Will. I suggest that this phenomenon can be explained in two ways. On the one hand, in contrast to the "bourgeois" - a sly slave, searching and highly sensitive to the needs of the master, the 4th Will - a slave without guile, serving with soldierly straightforwardness, insensitive to the master, often continuing to move the same course after the boss has already made a turn. Hence the scissor-like behavior of rebellion. 

On the other hand, as Thomas Mann said, "Voluntary servitude is freedom. This aphorism, more than any other, applies to the 4th Will. Voluntary and sincere slavery entitles it to the free, direct expression of the rest, above functions, which might well be taken as rebellion, if it had any consequences. 

One can only take the revolt of the "serf" seriously by looking at it from afar. It was not for nothing that Trotsky called Bukharin's front a "kneeling rebellion. The inner freedom in expressing one's opinion in the 4th Will has nothing to do with the freedom of decisionmaking. As Rousseau complained in connection with family squabbles: "To get rid of all this fuss would require firmness, of which I was incapable. I was able to shout, but not to act; I was left to speak, but acted in my own way." 

The life of the Fourth Will is the life of a splinter thrown into the water. The "serf" is not his own master, his fate is entirely ruled by fate and inertia. This is why once, when Molotov's interlocutor said that he became a Communist as a result of some consistent and conscious choice, Molotov simply replied: "The wind blew him over, and so he did. The wind carried him, carried him, and carried him. And then he went into exile - there was nowhere to go. 

In addition to simplicity, openness, selflessness, the 4th Will is distinguished by a sincere unwillingness to take serious responsibility. The Beatles' biographer spoke of Ringo as follows: "He's open, friendly, and probably the likeliest of all the Beatles. He doesn't concentrate on himself at all. The biographer goes on to make a characteristic statement about Stahr. Acknowledging his success in the movie "Evening of a Hard Day," Ringo said: "After this movie I have received many offers, all for the leading roles. Once I almost agreed to play the role of Watson in the movie about Sherlock Holmes, but then I decided that this is still too serious for me. I do not want to take up the role, which would fall on me the main burden. At least not yet. Can you imagine what a horror it would be to fail? But I'd be all right in small parts. After all, then the responsibility is not on me." Mind you, the role of Watson is certainly not that of Julien Sorel or Raskolnikov, and yet... 

Ringo's desire to play secondary roles, as in a drop of water, reflects the psychology of the 4th Will, voluntarily condemning himself to secondary roles, performance, obscurity. 

"I think no human being has ever been less naturally vain than I am...," wrote Rousseau, thus noting another important trait of the psyche of the 4th Will: the sincere absence of ambition. And, interestingly enough, history usually goes the way of the "serf" in this matter, making him a rare and occasional guest on the starry firmament of humanity. 

The 4th Will itself is unspeakably surprised to find itself at the top of the social pyramid or any serious structure. Darwin wrote quite sincerely: "It is truly astonishing that a man of such humble ability as myself could, in a number of essential questions, exert a considerable influence on the views of men of science. Darwin's bewilderment one wishes to share. To do arbitrary things over something already established, i.e., to actually create, to change something in oneself and others, is possible only by possessing a corresponding more or less solid instrument, the Will. And when it is made of foam rubber, manifestation of initiative, individuality, independence, innovativeness really looks almost like a miracle. 

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The different positions of the Will in different peoples will be discussed separately in connection with specific psychotypes. But the 4th Will itself can be fairly confidently attributed to a great number of peoples living in different parts of the world. What they have in common is that these peoples were pushed to the periphery of the oikumene: the far north, the far south, distant islands, tundra, deserts, jungles, marshes, etc. They found themselves in such perilous places, we think, due to mass obedience, because of the 4th Will. The anecdotes about the Chukcha, which is a creature of easy-going, timid, naive and trusting nature, loved by the Russian people, may serve as a weighty argument in favor of such an assumption.