![]() However, when they can wake up to the ways in which they dwell in suffering or dramatize their emotions as a way of distracting themselves from their deeper need for love, they can express a special kind of wisdom that is informed by deep emotional truth.įor Type Fours, the key to embracing their true selves lies in gradually shifting their focus from what they view as negative or missing and allowing themselves to see what’s positive and present. They can see what’s missing so clearly that they may be blind to what is good or hopeful in a situation, often to their own detriment. While they have a gift for emotional sensitivity, they can become attached to their feelings in a way that can prevent them from thinking objectively or taking action. Although it would be wrong to think that all Fours are artists or all artists are Fours, they do have an artistic impulse that enables them to see and respond to the poetry in life, and to highlight for others the way everyday experiences can be viewed and communicated in creative and even transcendent ways.Īs with all the archetypal personalities, however, Type Fours’ gifts and strengths also represent their “fatal flaw” or “Achilles heel:” they can overdo their focus on pain and suffering, sometimes as a way of avoiding a deeper or different kind of pain. Fours’ regular contact with their own emotional terrain gives them a lot of comfort and strength in being with intense feelings and empowering others to feel and accept their emotions. Fours are highly empathic and can see the beauty and power in painful feelings that other types habitually avoid.įours’ “superpower” is that they are naturally emotionally intuitive. Relatively unafraid of intense feelings, Fours value the expression of authentic emotion and can support others with great care, respect, and sensitivity when they are experiencing painful emotions. The natural strengths of Type Fours include their large capacity for emotional sensitivity and depth, their ability to sense what is going on between people on the emotional level, their natural feel for aesthetics and creativity, and their idealistic and romantic sensibility. This archetype thus represents the tendency we all have to develop an “inferiority complex,” which makes it difficult to feel good about ourselves and take in what is good from the outside. We can all become depressed in the face of feeling inadequate when we don’t fit the idealized image of what we believe we have to be to get the love we want. ![]() We all have the capacity to feel bad about what we see as our flaws and to grieve and long for what we see as lacking in our lives. Type Fours are thus the prototype for that part in all of us that feels dissatisfied with who we are. Although Fours may also recast their sense of deficiency as being “special” or “unique” as a way of valuing themselves on a surface level, they identify with a deficient self more than an idealized self. ![]() Type Fours overidentify with those parts of ourselves we’d rather others don’t see. While this entails an understandable frustration with regard to deprivation, an overidentification with the frustrated, deprived state leads to an inability to take in that which would provide fulfillment. ![]() This archetype’s drive is to focus on what is lacking as a step to regaining wholeness and connection but through an over-focus on the experience of a flawed self, they become convinced of an inner deficiency that prevents fulfillment. Type Four represents the archetype of the person who experiences an inner sense of lack and a craving for that which is missing, and yet can’t allow for the attainment of what might provide satisfaction. ![]()
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