The author attempts to develop further a characterology of psychoanalytic self psychology. The wishy-washy character is "unable to care"; this character type is differentiated from character constellations with prominent indecisiveness, compliance, or passivity. Those with wishy-washy characters do not feel relief when a decision is arrived at, nor do they experience regret about alternatives that have been forgone. Goldberg believes that this type of pathology results from a structural deficit in which the individual is unable to experience a feeling of sameness and continuity