At 2.0, antagonism, the person will look directly at you all right, but not very pleasantly. He wants to locate you—as a target. This is the level of antagonistic conversation. The individual is apt to nag or to make derogatory [faultfinding; giving a low opinion] comments to invalidate [make less of] other people. On this level the individual can only be roused [brought to life] by nagging, nasty cracks, invalidations* and other antagonistic communication. [He has] a feeling of annoyance and irritation caused by the advances of other people toward the individual. Here is the occasional grouch, the complaining individual who yet makes no mistake about what he finds wrong.

*invalidation: putting someone down or saying what someone else considers to be a fact is wrong, different, no good or false.