Emotions are arguments
Emotions are arguments, each arguing for survival in one of three arenas:
The self argument argues for the extended self: You, your family, close friends and valued possessions.
The world argument argues for survival in the physical environment, making the feeler confront danger.
The society argument navigates the complexities of human society, arguing for survival in the tribe.
The arguments have an order of priority, called the eristic order.
Each argument has two forms
Emotions are dualities, having one of two forms that can be felt at a time:
Love argues to add to or nurture the extended self, while disgust argues to remove from the extended self.
Fear argues to model and understand the world, while anger argues to modify or destroy the world.
Guilt argues to do work for society, while pride argues to be a high-quality member of society.
Your archetype is characterized by a combination of these two forms:
Emotions are felt in beats
Emotions are felt in beats, like heartbeats, with each argument being voiced each beat.
The order and expression of the arguments depends on the situation, but defaults to your archetype's characteristic emotion.
Emotions have an energy order
Emotions have energy costs, depending on complexity and expression:
Lower energy
→ → →
Higher energy
Love
Fear
Guilt
Disgust
Anger
Pride
In a beat, the lower energy emotion is felt first. Eristic diagrams organize emotions in this love-to-pride emotional energy spectrum.
Emotions are needs served by culture
Groups, cultures and societies need to satisfy all six base emotions for their members.
They'll typically do this in one of three patterns:
All cultures are characterized by one of these three patterns.
Complex emotions are also dualities
The base emotions are dualities, with one form felt at a time:
Love
↔
Disgust
Fear
↔
Anger
Guilt
↔
Pride
When they team up in a complex emotion, their dual nature is preserved:
● ●●Attachment
(love → fear)
↔
● ●●Hatred
(disgust → anger)
●● ●Duress
(fear → disgust)
↔
● ●●Frustration
(love → anger)
● ●●●Devotion
(love → guilt)
↔
● ●●●Contempt
(disgust → pride)
●●● ●Envy
(guilt → disgust)
↔
● ●●●Satisfaction
(love → pride)
●● ●●●Anxiety
(fear → guilt)
↔
●● ●●●Zeal
(anger → pride)
●●● ●●Remorse
(guilt → anger)
↔
●● ●●●Revelation
(fear → pride)
The opposite of an archetype's characteristic emotion is its coping emotion.
Emotions are addictive
Emotions can become addictive, like a drug that's made in your head. The addictions usually involve the emotions that make up your archetype's characteristic emotion:
Addiction to love, or the emotions here, looks like codependency.
Addiction to fear looks like depression and anxiety, with duress as depression.
Addiction to guilt results in a dramatic personality.
Addiction to disgust results in narcissism.
Addiction to anger-containing emotions looks like rage or psychosis.
Addiction to pride results in Machiavellianism.
Your archetype has a particular weakness too: