Exo-ideal

The exo-ideal occupies the same position as an endo-ideal with the energy running the other way. Everything else about the structure is unchanged, which is the point of having both terms. There is still a bounded group, still a single figure at the centre, still a forced rather than balanced transfer, and the difference in the overall direction of energy flow is what separates an endo-ideal tyrant from an exo-ideal martyr. Tyrants take anima and martyrs give it, and both arrangements are endosocial. Marsh describes how the position is arrived at rather than chosen. Those with power cannot have equal and reciprocal interactions with other people, so they have few opportunities to create connections, and interactions obeying the egalitarian imperative will predominantly disperse energy outward, which produces the one-way relationship an exo-ideal martyr suffers. Saviours are the common route in. A saviour is a reflector, but once a dependency bond has formed either a martyr or a tyrant may result, so the same starting position can end at either pole. The organizations that produce martyr saviours are ones where power lies outside the head of the organization, such as volunteer bodies, particularly those headed by a member of a negative image class, or groups that are highly organized with a weak head. The danger to the occupant is real, since an endogroup living on secondary anima derived from its idol risks martyring that idol in its euphoric frenzy.

Weber's charismatic authority describes the leader constituted by followers, and the sociology of martyrdom studies how self-sacrifice generates authority for a cause. Frazer's dying king gathered comparative material on rulers ritually killed for the group's benefit, and Girard's scapegoat theory concerns a victim whose expulsion restores a community. Servant leadership in management literature is the sanitized modern version. Marsh's term is distinguished by refusing the moral asymmetry all of these carry. Placing the martyr and the tyrant as two directions within one structure means the self-sacrificing figure is not the healthy alternative to the extractive one, since both require a bounded group and a forced transfer.