The Four Tempers

Item from Severance by Dan Erickson

Kier Eagan's theory that the human soul contains four emotional forces — Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice — and that controlling them is the key to human perfection.

Also known as: Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice, WO FC DR MA

What They Know

• Kier Eagan's framework: Woe (sadness), Frolic (joy), Dread (fear), Malice (anger) — the four forces of the human soul
• Basis for MDR's data classification system — 'scary' numbers are sorted into WO, FC, DR, and MA categories
• Represented by four masks in the Waffle Party ceremony — connecting corporate reward to philosophical doctrine
• Treated as empirical fact by severed employees who have no other framework for understanding emotion

Connections

• created_by — kier_eagan
• used_in — mdr_office
• used_in — waffle_party

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