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Emotions are arguments. Learn how you use the arguments of love, fear and guilt.
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What's your archetype?
16 questions · 5-10 minutes
The arguments:
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Self
(love/disgust)
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World
(fear/anger)
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Society
(guilt/pride)
Each argument is a duality with two forms.
The archetypes:
Emotions are arguments, each arguing for survival in one of three arenas:
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Self
The self argument argues for the extended self: You, your family, close friends and valued possessions.
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World
The world argument argues for survival in the physical environment, making the feeler confront danger.
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Society
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.
Emotions are dualities, having one of two forms that can be felt at a time:
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Love & disgust
Love argues to add to or nurture the extended self, while disgust argues to remove from the extended self.
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Fear & anger
Fear argues to model and understand the world, while anger argues to modify or destroy the world.
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Guilt & pride
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, 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 energy costs, depending on complexity and expression:
In a beat, the lower energy emotion is felt first. Eristic diagrams organize emotions in this love-to-pride emotional energy spectrum.
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.
The base emotions are dualities, with one form felt at a time:
When they team up in a complex emotion, their dual nature is preserved:
The opposite of an archetype's characteristic emotion is its coping emotion.
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:
All emotions argue for our survival. They're all good and when deployed right, healthy and useful.
This applies to complex emotions too. With names like hatred, envy and contempt, they might come off as harsh or wrong. But each combination is useful to every feeler as a matter of survival.
Every emotion can be mastered and healthy.
Ensures family survival
Ensures direct survival
Ensures tribal survival
Virtues help a feeler avoid the negative effects of an emotion by consciously producing the results of its opposite emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional. Here are your archetype's virtues:
Read the other archetype descriptions here: