Point 8: Ego-vengeance

Protoanalysis

The justice maker starts by being an idealist [VII], the active. Then he becomes a nonconformist [IX], the attractive. His process with reality, his idealism, will put him in the point of the nonconformist; after failing in the search for his own truth, the function, he falls into his fixated point where he will want to make justice for everybody, the result.

Point 8 is known as "Ego-vengeance". The fixation is also known as "Over-Justicemaker".

The over-justice maker character is always concerned with justice. He is concerned with whether justice is correct or not in everything. He is never going to find strict justice outside. And if he does not find strict justice, he will not start anything outside. Inside, he will judge himself until it really hurts

This ego derives from the Historical Ego, which is a response to the Conservation Instinct. The psychic poison of the Conservation Instinct at the root of Ego-Vengeance is Avarice, extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

Ego-vengeance experiences a sense of abuse in the childhood relationship with a Mother figure.

The main ego-characteristic of this fixation is Vengeance. The Passion which feeds this ego is Lust (Excess) which is first felt when one is abused by a parent, teaching the child that the attainment of food and nurture is a fight against people trying to stop them from getting it, creating a sense of vengeance in the fight and a resulting excess in getting what they need, confusing it with what they want. This excess makes them feel powerful and autonomous, as though they have won the fight ten times over, but many people were punished in the process. The primary defense mechanism is Rationalization, a justification that if you fight for something you deserve to have it. Worsening of this fixation can lead to the Passive-Aggresive Personality Disorder. A secondary defense mechanism is Resistance. Further worsening leads to psychosomatic illness.

Becoming fixated in the Domain of Laws and Morals, there is a swing to the dichotomies of that domain. This can manifest in a positive sense as a focus on Morality on one side, or Tolerance at the other side. It can manifest in a negative sense as Puritanism at one extreme or Hedonism at the other extreme. These dichotomies are represented by two characters: the Self-righteous character at one end, the Libertine at the other. A sense of Remorse invades the consciousness in this domain. The stress of being fixated and imbalanced in this domain can lead to Cruelty as a compensatory mechanism. The poison of this domain is Mythomania.

The Trap which simultaneously restricts but potentially liberates this ego is its focus on Justice, a solidarity with the oppressed. The Way of self-realization of this ego is the Way of Redemption, which redeems the past and the people in it that were hurt in the conquest for Justice.

The Holy Idea which acts as a catalyzer for the transformation of this ego is Holy Truth, or Divine Truth. This can lead to the Virtue (energy) of Innocence, "why should I want to hurt anyone and why should anyone want to hurt me?"

According to Ichazo, Divine Truth is:

The awareness that the cosmos objectively exists now; that this existence is its own definition, and continues whether an individual understands it or not; and that the individual experiences the truth of Reality most completely when he views each moment fresh, without preconceptions about what should be happening.