Subtypes

Poet (IEI)

Elegist

Regulating subtype

Melancholy given form. It broods on loss and premonition, keeps memory faithfully, and shapes it into elegy, song or ritual. It is reserved and serious, and attuned to what the group grieves.

Seeks
Meaning found in loss
Avoids
Forgetting
In a team
Keeps collective memory
Trap
Rumination

Where it works

  • Composition
  • Poetry
  • Memoir and ghostwriting
  • Grief counseling
  • Oral-history archiving
  • Sound design