The Artist seeks to discover inner truths and share them with the world.
Characterized by love and fear, the Artist has an intense connection between self and world.
Your best arguments:
Emotions work like a jury of the three arguments, which combine in beats. Eristic beats are fast, like a heartbeat.
Eristics mostly looks at the form of the two strongest arguments involved in a beat. Any archetype can feel any emotion, but they tend to feel particular emotions.
The Artist uses love and fear mostly through the attachment beat, making for an attentive and observant archetype. Artists are careful of the connections they make because the 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 works as a complement to envy, hatred, zeal, remorse and contempt.
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.
Exhilaration is a problem for the Artist, who might get swept up in exhilarating friendships or romances.
Exhilaration, a fleeting emotion, fulfills all the base emotions outside attachment.
Exhilaration always has a narrative element: Sharing a secret, going on an adventure, starting something new, etc.
The Artist will typically have trouble finding his or her voice in a group.
The Artist may have a habit of attracting 'big' personalities that use a lot of disgust and anger. These types might view the Artist as someone to bend to their will.
Here's a common pattern for the Artist:
Attachment/hatred doesn't fulfill guilt/pride.
The Artist copes with hatred, the beat combining disgust and anger. This form of coping might involve the following:
Revenge: Disgust and anger easily lead to revenge.
Obsessive hatred: Long-term hatred can become obsessive.
Demonizing: The Artist may pick one person to hate over and over.
The attachment/hatred pattern can be destructive to the Artist. But it can also keep the Artist from being overwhelmed by attachment, with hatred acting like a shut-off valve.
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:
The Artist and the Fixer both fit in well to the attachment/envy/zeal pattern.
Guilt might give the Artist problems in a devotion/contempt culture. It's probably the most important argument in the devotion/contempt culture, but feels limiting for the individualistic Artist.
Attachment/guilt covers the same base emotions as devotion.
The Artist struggles with contempt, too, usually preferring envy and zeal to meet disgust/anger/pride needs.Your archetype is most prone to first- and second-argument addictions:
Here are all six base emotion addictions:
Anyone can become addicted to any emotion. Emotional addictions are rare, even among the associated archetypes, and usually require outside help.
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.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional, honed by practice. For the Artist, the need for fairness goes along with a weak pride argument.
These archetypes have the same first argument, love:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
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