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He is so different in his attitude as to appear to be two completely different people. The director is afraid to hope that this will last. He needs strongly to feel that he is liked. His affectations are for the purpose of building up an image that he believes must be superior enough to be respected. If he is not going to be liked, he is determined to be respected.
His powerful basic insecurity was caused by a broken home, and a situation where he was also thrown into alien cultures; not only was he unsure of belonging to a family, but also felt he had no cultural or national belongings.
A conflict as to sexual requirements developed, as various qualifications were held for the sexes in the countries in which he lived. This adds to the insecurity. My advice for once, out of desperation, was followed by Ruburt, with results that you know.
The man does have touches of brilliance. He exaggerates his brilliance out of nagging doubts of his merit. Nevertheless, one of the basic keys to his character is the overwhelming need to be liked as a human being.
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We will take the personality of your director, Ruburt, if we may. Here not only desire but expectation brought about his directorship. He wanted, and finally expected, some kind of domain of his own. Being a part of no real community as a youngster, being unsure even of family unit, he first sought out various organizational positions, and governmental environments, as a man might wrap a cloak about him to protect himself from the elements.
So he attempted to wrap himself in the cloak of organization. He remained however basically anonymous. His desire to belong and his expectation also became stronger. The gallery represents a unit of community affiliation in which he can exert some power, and yet be within a community unit.
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This is not meant in any way as any sort of reprimand, but merely as an example close at hand as to how expectation operates. Ruburt’s disappointment then, was only superficial, because he knew that the decision had been made much earlier. The assessor, then, with his own free will of course in operation, nevertheless saw the property as you had constructed it. I will certainly not expect you at this point to believe me literally–
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