E: Effeminacy: ankles, feet and wrists small; arms and legs tapering; curved lines on body of male; full lips on male; high heeled shoes; lashes (male figure). Effeminacy/homo-erotic tendency/homosexual tendency: lashes on male. Effeminacy/insecurity: feet small, male subject. Effeminate/narcissistic/submissive: emphasis on circles in depicting body. Egocentric/hysteria/immaturity/repression: eye as a circle (no pupil). Egocentric/immature/over concern of material criteria for social status: clothing carefully rendered. Egocentric/schizoid: body emphasis (under clothed). Egotism/narcissism: doodling of subjects name. Emotional control (rigid): stiff posture. Emotional exhaustion/lack of drive/low energy: reclined or seated same sex figure. Emotional fixation or wish to return to youth/immaturity: younger figure than subject. Emphasis on possession and social prestige: clothing elaboration, grooming. Need for social approval and dominance: over clothed. Evasion/guilt/lack of confidence/possible psychopath: hands behind back or in pockets. Evasion of body problems: peanut man, snowman, and stick man. Evasion of problems/reluctance to reveal self: resistance to drawing figures. Evasiveness: figure of profile. Exhibitionism/sexual preoccupation: earrings. Exhibitionistic tendency/social accessibility/social communications/ social dependency: full-faced figure. Expectation of aggression from environment or impaired self-esteem possible (may symbolize psychic trauma): facial scars on same sex figure. Externalized aggression: hands emphasized, bushy eyebrows. Externalized aggression/paranoia: eye emphasized. Extroversion/need for support: left-to-right strokes.
F: Fantasy relative to "femininity": hat crease. Feeling of body disorganization/maternal dependence/psycho- sexual immaturity/schizoid/schizophrenic: joint and knuckle emphasis. Feeling of decline associated with advancing age (shaded legs may be homosexual tendency): full body with shaded or thin legs. Feeling of emasculation/anxiety or masculine inadequacy: area depicted as broken, cut, damaged or otherwise impaired. Feelings of inadequacy or rejection/internalized hostility/self-contempt: cartoon figure, clown. Feelings of inadequacy: small same sex figure, tiny drawing. Feelings of masculine insufficiency: shoulders or other masculine details exaggerated. Felt lack of masculinity and virility: hair white on male figure. Felt lack of status/low self-esteem: disheveled, unkempt figure. Felt lack of virility: balding male figure. Felt subjection to strong environmental pressure or stress, with fear of psychosis: strong wind in scene of human figure drawing. Female protest/feminine role rejection: drawing male first, female subject. Female regarded as sexually rejecting: hand of female figure in pelvic area, male subject. Feminine identification: emphasis on left side of figure. Feminine identification dealt with by narcissism and obsessive-compulsive mechanism: hair parted in middle, head split. Feminine identification with dominant mother: chest emphasis, female subject. Feminine trait: rounded trunk. Femininity: rounded lines in formation of body. Forced amiability/inappropriate affection: clown-like mouth.
G: Guilt, strong wish to be castrated: armless figure of male, male subject. Guilt (as theft or masturbation): shaded figures. Guilt/depression/schizophrenia/withdrawal: arms omitted.
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