a reach and withdrawmechanism which a person has used to reach people or things with. The cycle of the Rock is: A person 1) failed to communicate himself; 2) started using something to communicate with; 3) put the lastitem on automatic and it created for him; 4) it failed. It is the first shift of valence, the loss of identity of self and the assumption of identity of something else. —3rd South African unpublished Appr GLS (19.3.92)