Antonio Barbato

Like the other Sixes, in people of this variant Fear is not a healthy expression induced by the Self-Preservation instinct naturally swinging between prudence and action. There is instead a permanent perception of an overwhelming risk. This could be much more unbearable for the psyche than concretely facing the danger itself.

In the people of this variant the conflict between a passion that is naturally retractive like Fear and the drive towards Expansion, proper inste...

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