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- "We'll find you a James Bond!" I promised Nina light-heartedly. "He'll be a star, handsome and the best at everything. Once you fall for him, you'll be running after him at a gallop..." I have a little "vice": I like to describe personality types in more vivid images. For example, instead of my own personality type, which the author of the S-Theory called schizoid, I say "Dr House", and instead of the narcissistic one, which was supposed to harmonise Nina perfectly, I say "James Bond". Let me

Yin and Yang. Anima and animus. The masculine and the feminine principle. Masculinity and femininity. The active and the passive life position. These are all synonyms. Here we shall talk about the active life position (ALP).

"What shall I give?" - an eternal question, joyful and agonising at the same time. Which gift can you choose for a man? For your wife? That is still the easy part - with people close to you a personalised experience is always unique! But choosing a gift for a client is trickier. Knowing the temperaments will help: what gifts sanguines, cholerics, phlegmatics and melancholics look for is now known not only from psychoanalysis, but has also been checked statistically in market research.

I will never stop marvelling at the genius of the old storytellers who invented the phrase “and they lived happily ever after”. Behind that phrase, as behind mayonnaise, you can hide any flaw, crack or whiff of staleness: the fact that once the tale was over the newlyweds lived in completely different wings of the palace, if in the same palace at all; the fact that affairs with the servants did not count as adultery; and a great deal more besides. The most interesting thing in these stories is the idealised figures of the princesses and their princes. The kind that simply do not exist.