The Fixer fixes what's broken in the world.
More industrious than creative, the Fixer prefers to focus on repairing or improving what's already there.
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.
As a characteristic emotion, envy is maybe one of the least flattering words. But it's just the society argument followed by the self argument. The self argument is in its disgust form, which demands a removal from the self or a bettering of the self.
So envy looks at society and then makes adjustments to the self. The word envy is usually associated with the most dramatic form of the emotion, but the Fixer won't tend to be outwardly envious. Instead they're socially aware and discerning, according to the arguments of guilt and disgust.
Envy combines guilt's affinity for society with the discernment of disgust.
The Fixer usually has a well-curated group of friends.
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.
The dissonance of the Fixer's inner dialogue, with the internalizing guilt and the externalizing disgust, is less pronounced than any other dissonant inner dialogue because of the similar energy levels of the two emotions. As a result, feelers in the Fixer archetype will seem cool, calm and collected to others.
The Fixer does well in a position of responsibility where he or she can continually, well, fix things.
Key to this even disposition is the ability to balance externalizing through zeal and internalizing through attachment. The Fixer may seem to have three modes: A default group-work-oriented mode, an analysis mode (attachment) and a "fix-it" mode (zeal). Envy is the well-worn groove in the middle of the spectrum, attachment and zeal the two well-worn grooves to either side.
The attachment/envy/zeal pattern is very stable and balanced.
Because of this pattern, the Fixer will find a friend in the Artist. They may get along well with the Lancer too, with a shared second disgust argument and tendency towards zeal.
The Fixer's core emotional paradox is that they are ultimately world-oriented, but don't actually have the world argument in their active emotional dialogue.
The Fixer copes using satisfaction, the combination of love and pride.
Satisfaction is hard to achieve, making for a difficult coping strategy. The Fixer copes the least of all the archetypes.
Coping using satisfaction may look like:
Self-spoiling: The emotion of the self and the externalizing narrative emotion can push you to lavishly spend on self, family or friends.
Checking out: Vacations can help everyone from time to time, but the Fixer may check out too much.
Delusion: Delusions of the self can satisfy the emotion of pride. Sometimes, the Fixer may get a cruel reality check when a delusion comes crashing down.
The envy/satisfaction loop is where the Fixer expresses his or her creativity, tweaking and maximizing systems.
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 Fixer balances society's outlook, represented by guilt, and individualism, represented by disgust.
The Fixer easily fits in with one of the two major cultural patterns, attachment/envy/zeal:
The Artist and the Fixer both fit in well to attachment/envy/zeal.
The other pattern, devotion/contempt, may be harder for the Fixer, whose envy straddles the two 'bigger' emotions:
Envy satisfies key emotions from both devotion and contempt, making the Fixer an awkward fit.
The Fixer who masters a separation of guilt and disgust will fit in well to devotion/contempt cultures and attachment/envy/zeal cultures.
Attachment and envy are a great match:
The Artist and the Fixer embody attachment and envy.
If the attachment is toxic, however, it may be too good of a match. A romantic or business partner with too-big attachment needs may take advantage of the Fixer, especially if he or she externalizes too much through disgust, anger and pride.
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 Fixer is naturally good at fairness and discretion which work like guilt and disgust.
The Fixer should aim to develop diligence and compassion, which work to moderate guilt and disgust.
The hardest-to-develop virtue for the Fixer is courage.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional, honed by practice. For the Fixer, the need for courage goes along with a weak fear argument.
These archetypes have the same first argument, guilt:
These archetypes share your second argument, disgust:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
This archetype is the inversion of yours:
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