Business before pleasure.
Every miller draws water to his own mill.
He who will not keep a penny, never shall have any.
Life is movement.
Percentage: 24%
Archetype: Limitation of the primary urge to have sex and murder.
Role:
In peaceful times the dermal vector is responsible for food provision and supply.
During times of conflict – hunting.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
The highest comfort color is khaki
The highest comfort geometry is a cross
Position in the quartile is the outer part of the space quartile, an extrovert
Type of thinking is logical
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
In primitive society dermal people were commanders. The urethral chief initiated forward movement, dermal commanders helped to control and lead muscular warriors. Discipline is a quality that is inherent only to men with a dermal vector. If you are self-disciplined you are able to discipline others.

When the dermal hunter gets back to the cave he becomes a food keeper. The warriors returning from the hunt brought food. Everyone sits down to a common table and a sumptuous feast begins. At this very moment only the dermal food keeper could worry that tomorrow's hunt could fail, so it is necessary to store food.
Still it is common to see stereotypically dermal old men who store everything that a person needs for the next 20 years. Nowadays such behavior does not make sense, but years ago it saved lives.
Later another type of economy became urgent – the economy of power and resources. It is the dermal man who the first started thinking about how much time and effort the community wastes to get to the next closest river crossing in order to move their belongings. Then the same man thought to cut down a tree to make a bridge, later he'll go on to invent the wheel.
Having a propensity to the economy, dermal people became inventors, rationalizers and engineers. Bows, spears, carts, roads and any other engineering structures. Construction and technology came along afterwards as a result of dermal people's work.
Akin to young skin being resilient, a dermal body is amazingly flexible and mobile. The dermal man without other vectors always has long, slender legs and a flexible spine that let him become a brilliant dancer. Only dermal women can gracefully walk quickly in stiletto shoes.
A fully developed dermal person is notable for their accurate and deft movements. It is always a pleasure to watch how they do their work. They can be the best marksmen and hunters who accurately feel the flight path of a spear, an arrow or a bullet.
Overwork in the dermal vector causes skin problems; it either comes out as a rash or acne.
Besides a flexible body the dermal man has a flexible psyche. Its distinctive feature is the ability to make an about-turn. Today I affirm and prove one thing, tomorrow –I'll do the exact opposite. The question is more about what I gain at the moment.
Psychological flexibility allows the dermal people to adapt easily and quickly to any dynamic conditions whether it is a change at work or moving to a different city or country.
Logical thinking is also a “dermal” distinctive feature. We can hear from men with the dermal vector phrases like, “This isn't logical!”, “Where is logic?”, “Logically…” etc. Cause and effect connections get built up in their brains with such striking accuracy that it lets them be great inventors, engineers, designers, accountants, bankers and statisticians.
The dermal people are chary about words, praise and emotions, they are restrained and secretive. They always answer a question with a question and never tell anything about themselves, but ask about everything and gather all information about others. Brevity is their forte.
The dermal vector forms the outer part of the space quartile. On the physical level, skin separates a man from his environment and limits his body; similarly on the psychological level: the dermal vector is restricted by the primary urge for sex and murder thus moving a man from the animal level to the level of a human.



As of this moment we stopped being animals that obey instincts - our natural actions became regulated. This“skin” separated the world into “inside the cave” and “outside the cave”, establishing different types of behavior on both sides of the border. “Inside the cave” we do not kill or touch somebody’s woman because of the punishment which would follow. “Outside the cave” we fight and lead other men's wives away and we will not be punished. It is this “skin” separation which paved the way for all the laws in the civilized world.
The dermal vector’s essence is the inner need to limit, prohibit and control.
Key words to notice are “No!” or “Don’t!” At first they prefer to refuse, perhaps later they will agree. They think up different rationalizations to justify their behavior. Actually their nature is quite simple: the dermal people find pleasure when executing their natural functions of prohibition and limitation thus the word “No” is their main one.
The dermal man saves time. They hate tardiness. this sense of time lets them wake up 5 minutes before the alarm rings. Punctuality and precision are courtesies of “dermal kings”
This is a person who can multi-task and succeed. They do not want to do everything perfectly (like those of the anal vector), they'd rather manage to do as much as possible in a limited time.
The “dermal” legend reads: “Rich are those who save”, “those who will not keep a penny, will never have any”. This is the curse for the dermal person: trying to spread themselves so thinly that they lose everything. For example, a dermal businessman has a whole project fail because he saved too much on advertising.
Stressed dermal men adore sales. They wait until the things they want are 15% cheaper, then 30%, 50% etc. They endure a type of suffering if they overpay even 2 cents.
The one thing that they do not save money on is health. They consume vitamins, dietary supplements and carefully watch their nutrition. The dermal people are the clientèle of beauty salons and spas.
The most sensitive part of a dermal person is their skin. They need tactile contact, often they may start to stroke and touch people and of course they like to be treated the same. That is why they are considered to be affectionate and endearing.
Dermal men’s libido in comparison to the other vectors is not strong. That’s why they are not sexually attached to just one partner. The novelty of new partners arouses sexual desire in dermal people, thus they have more sexual partners that others. Normal relationships in the dermal vector do not last long. They continue relationships if there is some other interest at hand or they leave their partner forever without looking back.
Marriages of convenience and acts of infidelity (according to the anal vector) originate from the dermal vector but to them it is just a change of sexual partners There is a hidden answer to the question, “Why do we cheat?”
A weak libido compels a dermal person to increase their sexual play by climbing the career ladder and raising their social status. High social status and prosperity makes them more attractive to their sexual partners, their chance to reproduce also increases.
This is the reason why a dermal man is very ambitious and self-confident. Career growth and money is very important for him. He is not a chief, he is a leader. Stereotypically their element is commerce and business. There are also roots of “dermal” love for sports and different types of competition.

Nowadays mature and developed dermal people become engineers and legislators.
Modern civilization is built on law and individual rights. Western civilization is a bearer of the dermal mentality.
The dermal child before puberty is to be trained in discipline and sports. It is necessity to come to agreement with them, “If you do this, then you can have fun”, “If you study well, I‘ll buy you a bicycle.” It is extremely important to keep a promise otherwise a swindled child will learn forever that promises can be broken and everyone is a liar.
Routine is very significant for a dermal kid. It is important to control them and explain why they cannot do this or that. It is necessary to teach them to obey, so in the future they will be able to take control.
It is necessary to take into account that an active, lively, little rouge who is ready to perform new feats and experience breathtaking adventures after being caught misbehaving once, will always try to fool and lie to others for the rest of life to avoid punishment. Corporal punishment traumatizes the sensitive side of dermal people and becomes manifested in things like stealing money from classmates’ pockets. The point here is that stress in the dermal vector arouses a stereotypical desire for theft that a child cannot overcome which in turn provokes parental anger.
Frequent painful stimulus on gentle and sensitive skin results in an adaptation to pain, it even becomes pleasant and desirable. This is how masochism develops. In some cases painful stimulus makes up person’s life scenario driving them to failure. Beaten in childhood, dermal boys are future masochists, losers, petty thieves and drunkards.
The stimulus provided in the upbringing for dermal boys might be materialistically rewarding. Adequate punishments can be space or time limitations, which do not interfere with the development of their other qualities, allowing them to be successful businessmen , economists, engineers, legislators and so on.
We live in the dermal world. It is important to understand what difficulties it can bring and be able to orient life in its constantly accelerating flow. To learn more about the dermal vector you can take part in the training on the Vector Systems Psychology given by Yuri Burlan.
The article is based on the training given for Vector Systems psychology presented by Yuri Burlan
Original text authors: Mariya Gribova, international rights and relations specialist, and Marina Murina, architect
Translated by: Yevegeniya Chistyakova