The Artist
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argues for
family survival
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argues for
physical survival
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argues for
tribal survival
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Benefits
Passionate, warm, caring
Drawbacks
Possessive, self-absorbed
Benefits
Intelligent, creative, observant
Drawbacks
Anxious, fawning, avoidant
Emotions work like a jury of the three arguments, which combine in beats. Eristic beats are fast, like a heartbeat.
The Artist leads with love and lands on fear to form the characteristic beat of attachment.
The Artist uses love and fear primarily through the attachment beat, making for an attentive, observant, and expressive archetype.
The Artist is characterized by attachment, which is feeling love and fear in the same eristic beat. It doesn't necessarily make this archetype an overly attached person, but it does mean they tend to be attentive and observant. They're careful of the connections they make because those connections tend to be intense.
Attachment is love and fear, the internalizing self and world arguments.
Attachment leaves lots of room for other emotions.
It's unique among the fear-containing emotions because it lands on fear instead of starting there. As a result, attachment has access to fear but may not show fear's trademark rationality when choosing what to be attached to. In other words, the Artist may habitually love the wrong people.
Attachment as a driver of work will almost always produce good results. Unfortunately it may not produce useful results, or results that society wants. The Artist that aligns with society is rare.
These are the beats the Artist is good at.
These are the beats the Artist struggles with.
These are the beats the Artist more rarely uses.
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The base emotions are like underlying survival needs.
Hatred fulfills disgust and anger, for example.
Duress fulfills fear, guilt and disgust, leaving love, anger and pride unfulfilled.
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Attachment/envy/zeal cultures are typically family- or individualism-oriented and hard-working.
Devotion/contempt cultures have strict rules, devoted followers and a disdain for outsiders.
Satisfaction culture, usually for smaller groups, focuses on avoiding fear, guilt, disgust and anger.
The Artist is great at fitting in within the attachment/envy/zeal pattern, since they are characterized by attachment. The Artist pairs well with the Fixer and with archetypes prone to zeal, such as the Observer.
The Artist and the Fixer both fit in well to the attachment/envy/zeal pattern.
The two stable societal patterns are attachment/envy/zeal and devotion/contempt. Cultures are generally defined by one of these two patterns.
In an attachment/envy/zeal pattern, the Artist will fit right in. They might have problems in a devotion/contempt culture:
Devotion/contempt cultures have simpler-but-stricter rules, which may alienate the Artist.
The core of the Artist's issue in such a culture lies in the difference between attachment and devotion: guilt. Because of this shortfall, the Artist may be more prone to feeling compounded, unexpressed guilt.
The Artist typically goes with attachment over devotion, leaving an unmet guilt need.
The Artist relies on his or her individual perspective, which may clash with the collectivist notions of a devotion/contempt culture.
When in a devotion/contempt culture, the Artist should take care to regularly experience emotions with guilt, particularly envy, remorse and pride.
Envy, remorse, and guilt/pride supplement the Artist's love and fear well.
Artists who don't experience guilt-containing emotions will struggle with unaddressed guilt or envy, depending on the culture they're in.
Since the coping emotion shares the same arguments (self/world/society) in inverted polarities, it effectively pauses the characteristic emotion, providing relief from overwhelming intensity.
The coping emotion serves as a shadow archetype, characterizing the feeler in periods of acute emotional stress.
The attachment and hatred pattern leaves 'holes' or unfulfilled guilt and pride.
The Artist copes with hatred, the all-externalizing emotion of the self and world, of disgust and anger, love and fear's eristic opposites. This form of coping might involve the following:
Revenge: The combination of disgust (deeming something as not-self) and anger (a need to act on the world) can lead the Artist to revenge.
Obsessive hatred: Previous objects of attachment may become objects of obsessive hatred.
Demonizing: Seeking to satisfy disgust and anger, the Artist may demonize others, even when they aren't involved with the Artist.
The Artist may seek out emotions with disgust, or ruminate on memories that trigger hatred, in order to cope. This combination provides immediate relief from overwhelming attachment.
The Artist is naturally good at compassion and honor which work like love and fear.
The Artist should aim to develop discretion and courage, which work to moderate love and fear.
The hardest-to-develop virtue for The Artist is fairness, corresponding to their blind spot.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion—coping made conscious and disciplined. For The Artist, developing fairness actively balances their unengaged pride argument.