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Exemplar

Dr. Watson

cultural · read by 2 of 6 traditions

How each tradition reads them

  • fictional illustration of the cognitive stack

    The steady companion whose memory keeps Holmes' genius available.

  • Hero's Journey

    The Ally

    Vogler 2007

    The steady hand to the genius; the Ally as narrator and moral frame.

Where they sit on the lenses

Stage

  • Pre-initiation
  • Striving
  • Liminal
  • Integrating
  • Integrated

Affect

  • Gut · Anger
  • Heart · Shame
  • Head · Fear
  • Eros · Desire

Stance

  • Toward
  • Against
  • Away

Cluster coalescence

The archetypal tags above resolve into 3 clusters. Each cluster reads the exemplar in its own vocabulary; where more than one cluster surfaces, the exemplar themself is holding a structural tension.

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