Distinctions between relational push and pull, transactional and autotelic, and Extraversion and Introversion have been drawn in this essay. I will shift my attention in the next three essays in this series to Loneliness (with the potential push of Introverts into this state), and Social Constructions (with the potential pull of Extraverts into an uncritical acceptance of these constructions). In the fourth essay of this series, I describe some of the conditions that lead to appropriate pull by both Extraverts and Introverts toward transactional and autotelic relationship. Specifically, I reflect on the creation and maintenance of psychological containers, connections, and communities that produce what Robert Bellah and his colleagues (1985) identify as Coherence. I consider how this Coherence can be conceived (and produced) from both a secular and sacred perspective.
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