Character dossier

docteur Cottard

A recurrent social presence whose aggregate treatment stays modestly negative, with occasional prestige or advantage recoveries that never fully stabilize.

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docteur Cottard portrait, Tarot
docteur Cottard: moderately negative with recoveries.Tarot

Interpretation

docteur Cottard is a mid-tier negative figure whose profile is shaped by one strong Swann-world concentration, then complicated by smaller later recoveries and uneven prestige moments.

Why docteur Cottard Is Distinctive

  • He is useful as a moderate case: neither overwhelmingly central nor trivial, but persistent enough to show how local reversals can coexist with an overall downward pattern.
  • His profile also distinguishes prestige blips from broader social and inclusion weakness.

Social Lenses

Archetype

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Broadly losing across immediate outcome, rank, and belonging.

Advantage

21%

Rank 49/62

Net score
-16.987
Mean
-0.386
Span
+5.98
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Prestige

26%

Rank 46/62

Net score
-9.216
Mean
-0.209
Span
+5.882
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Inclusion

23%

Rank 48/62

Net score
-18.415
Mean
-0.419
Span
+4.342
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Scene-level advantage over time

Advantage ELO Across ISLT

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Distinguishing Passages

Reading Path

  1. Primary negative concentration
  2. Later mixed prestige recovery
  3. Smaller positive countercurrent

Passage Signals