# Flove · Paper 5 — PsicoSocial

> Synthesis of the flove view of psychology and sociology as a single
> field. Sources: `4PsicoSocial.pdf`, `Slides26.2.pdf` (slides
> §PSICOSOCIAL), `4.Material ECONOMY25.4.odt`, `SimplexLiving.odt`,
> `FeminaFinaFatal25.10.odt` (the heaviest source on dimorphism &
> pathology), `Floves25.4.odt`.

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## 1. PsicoSocial as one field

Flove writes **PsicoSocial** without a hyphen — psychology and sociology
are not two disciplines but **two scales of the same bipolar substance**:

```
Inner ←————— PsicoSocial —————→ Outer
Past         Personal Local Social        Future
Culture      ←————— EGOLATRY —————→       Sociability
```

The flove's "expertise/bias" diagram explicitly anchors this on a chain:

> *IDEALISM — BIOLOGY — PSYCHOLOGY — SOCIOLOGY — LAMARCKISM —
> MATERIALISM*

Idealism and materialism are the two extremes; psychology and
sociology are its bipolar middle. The author marks **his bias as the
biology→sociology arc**, with idealism and materialism as the
boundary critics he refuses to demonise.

## 2. The destinistic / free-will macro framing

Macro-level positions on the same axis:

| | Destinistic side | Free-will side |
|---|---|---|
| Idealism | (Neo-)Darwinism, Cognitivism, Panpsychism, Solipsism | Constructivism |
| Bio | Evobio | (Bordieu's habitus) |
| Sociology | (structuralist) | Lamarckism / Pleomorphism |
| Materialism | Hard determinism | Free-will materialism |

Flove's compatibilist read: **all six positions are valid as
projections** of the same bipolar fractal. None is definitively right;
each is a partial confluence.

## 3. The bipolar pathology lattice

The single most distinctive flove psychiatric move: place all major
pathologies on **one bipolar 2×2** rather than as discrete diagnoses.

```
                    NARCISSI(SM)  / PROTECTION
                    (Hybristofilia, Sadism, Masochism)
                            ↑
               Personal | Local | Social
PAST  Culture ────┼──── EGOLATRY ────┼──── Sociability  FUTURE
INNER Mitomania   |  Hypergamy       |  Paedophilia       OUTER
                  |   (provision)    |                       
                            ↓
                            EGOIST · self-centered
                       (Trauma, Stress, Delirium)
```

The lattice expands into:

| Direction | Pathology cluster |
|---|---|
| Inner / past | Mitomania, masoquism, neurosis, depression, suicide |
| Local / centre | Hybristophilia, hypergamy, narcissi(sm) |
| Outer / future | Paedophilia, sadism, psicosis, schizo, psicopathy |
| Add-ons | Trauma, stress, delirium, mania, OCD, addictions, fears |

Reading: **every pathology is a frozen pole** of an otherwise dynamic
bipolar pair. Therapy is unfreezing it back to confluence, not
"curing" it.

## 4. Capitalism vs Socialism on the same lattice

The deck immediately re-uses the lattice for political economy:

```
              CAPITALIST PROVISION
                   ↑
LEFT ←———— POLITICAL — ECONOMICAL ————→ RIGHT
              ↓ MEDIA
              ↓
         JUDICIARY — MILITARY (protection)
                   ↓
              SOCIALIST ESTATE
```

- **Hybristophilic / Hypergamic** sit on Protection and Provision —
  the libidinal pathologies are the *macro-pathological mirrors* of
  political-economic extremes.
- **North Korea, China** placed top-left (centralised, conservative).
- **Steve Banon, Elon Musk** placed top-right (centralised, progressist
  fascism).
- **Liberalism / Capitalism** placed bottom-right.
- The **decentralised + progressist** corner is empty in the current
  world map — flove proposes to *fill it* with **Participatory
  Proportional Governance**: "Let's vote for the best advices between
  ministers from a proportional government."

This is the political proposal of flove: a 4-corner balance using
proportional + participatory mechanisms.

## 5. The Material Economy proposal (Material ECONOMY 25.4)

`4.Material ECONOMY25.4.odt` (3,703 lines) is the longest
psicosocial source. Core proposals:

1. **Chain economy** — supply, demand, and gift treated as one
   tri-pole. Money is one mechanism among several (gift, share,
   exchange, credit) on the same `Wish ↔ Offer` lattice.
2. **Proportional governance** — votes weighted by stake-coherence,
   not by majority count.
3. **Free-data legal infra** — `flove.org/Free` as a public data
   commons. Legal demos: **Trusty**, **Worthing**, **Reward**.
4. **Crowd-crafting** as the production paradigm — manufacturing as a
   public craft, not a corporate function.
5. **Low AI** (`lowai.org`) — explicitly "low-tech principles applied
   to AI": small, local, shareable, non-extractive.

## 6. Simplex Living

`SimplexLiving.odt` is the personal-praxis layer:

- Each day modelled as a **simplex** — a confluence of inner / outer,
  past / future, micro / macro choices.
- The five love-acts (the **Lovely** demo) as the day's sentinel
  practice.
- "Slow it, flow it, love it" — flove's lifestyle slogan, opposite of
  hustle-optimisation.

## 7. Bipolar disorders as macros of the matrifocal/patrilateral pair

A subtle move: **Bipolar disorder** (the psychiatric condition) is
read as a **conscious case of the same bipolarity** that organises
matrifocal/patrilateral cycles. Mania = matrifocal-flooding; depression
= patrilateral-collapse. Treatment is in the bipolar logic, not against
it.

This re-frames psychiatric medication as **damping the swings**, not
abolishing the bipole, and proposes prosodic-rhythmic interventions
(music, dance, breath) as the natural counterparts.

## 8. Society as outer body

The deck closes with the **military / fire-air-water-earth** mapping:

```
        FIRE   AIR
         (passion) (communication)
              ↕
        WATER  EARTH
         (flow)    (stability)
```

Each civic institution (legal, military, media, political,
economical) is placed on this elemental matrix. Society is treated as
an outer body whose four elements are bipolar pairs. Civic health is
their dynamic confluence; civic pathology is fixation on one element.

## 9. The Five Loves as the daily flove

The `loves.html` demo (5 love languages × scopes) is flove's tightest
psicosocial unit:

| Love language | Bipolar partner | Daily act |
|---|---|---|
| Words of affirmation | ↔ Active listening | Say one thing today |
| Quality time | ↔ Solitude well-spent | One present hour |
| Acts of service | ↔ Receiving help | One service today |
| Gifts | ↔ Receiving gifts | One gift today |
| Physical touch | ↔ Bodily autonomy | One touch today |

This is what flove asks the user to *do* — the rest of the theory
exists to back this small daily action.

## 10. One-line operational rule

> **Treat any psychological or social phenomenon as a bipolar pair on
> the inner/outer × past/future lattice, and design interventions that
> restore *swing*, not stillness.** Health is dynamic confluence.

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## Cross-references for AI consultations

When a user query touches **psychology, sociology, politics, economy,
mental health, ethics, governance, daily practice, love, gift,
community**, this paper is the right one. Pair with:

- `papers/2_biology.md` (matrifocal/patrilateral grounding).
- `papers/3_linguistics.md` (pragmatics → social).
- `tables/FloveTables25.12.ods` (sheets on Pathology, Politics, Loves).
- `slides/Slides26.2.txt` lines 6500–9100 for diagrams.
