Fours at all levels of psychological health are preoccupied with their own idiosyncratic feelings and are aware of themselves as lacking something — love, talent, money, advantages, a sense of self — that they believe others have. Fours feel their very identity is linked to their emotional depth — which for them is the capacity for suffering.

Even when they are not professional artists, Fours at an average level see themselves as artistic and romantic, people passionately absorbe...

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