Naranjo)

Enneagram One

Self-Preservation: Worry. Obsession about details, about getting it right, fussy  someone who never ceases to check and double-check ("Will enough people come to  the  banquet?"  "Will  the  car  have enough  gas?"). Covert anger, covert death  wishes  (e.g.,  if  your  son  is  late,  anger  gets  translated  by reaction formation into "I was so concerned!").  

Sexual: Zeal. In Spanish, "zeal" means "the animal in heat." The most free of the One subtypes. A passion for being a righteous person (vs. getting it right or being right). Translates into the attempt to be perfect  "so I will be loved by Mommy or by someone else." A passion to think right in order to give brilliance to your being.  Sex with a little invasiveanger; may have sadistic fantasies. More Eight-like. Martin Luther historically broke through the belief in God's good work. "Good works are not enough... you have to believe and have faith." He studied day and night, came from a very poor background and had habits of austerity.  

Social: The term non-adaptation has been used, but I prefer Rigidity, although it's disadvantageous in that it doesn't make us think of a "passion." A kind of inertia of your own "way," e.g., the Englishman taking tea in Colonial India with the little finger lifted, and a disrespect for Indian tradition, "bringing civilization to these "savages."  A  very narrow endorsement of your own values. Like the minister in Hawaii who wants to teach the Hawaiians their ways are sinful. Self-righteousness. The Inquisition had a lot of Ones (and Sixes). A passion for being right ("I'm right and you're wrong"). More externally punitive.

Enneagram Two  

Self-Preservation: Egocentric ("Me first"). Infantile, like a child ("I am the most important thing"). It's not power, but the child's feeling of being privileged; e.g., the wife in David Copperfield who didn't know how to pay the maid, who put bells on the dog, and the Accounts book ended up in the dog's house. ("Please don't get angry with me, I only wanted to help!"). Ineffective help. Not wanting to grow up. Too soft, too much  needing  protection.  A  Four-ish  Two.  More  openly  dependent.  Their  pride  resides  as  a  child  in "being the favorite in Daddy's or Mommy's eyes."

Sexual: Seduction (also called Invincibility or Conquest). Every Two is seductive in one way or the other, but this subtype is the specialist. Life becomes focused on success in seducing. A woman of this subtype can lead a man around by the nose, even an Eight male. More imaginative, more original, shows a seeming independence; dependent in the moment of bonding, but more Eight-ish, wild, creative, adventuresome, quick to detach if not loved. "Femme Fatale." They "eat up" what they want. Casanova once seduced someone in jail through the bars, once someone passed on the street, but he could never get interested in a relationship beyond a few days. He was not interested in the person, he was interested in  the process  of  seduction.  Collecting  conquests,  as  if  an  insecurity  about  himself  led  him  to  prove  it again  and  again. ”I  am  because  I  fuck!" The sexual element of the Two needs an element of freedom. So  Casanova was an adventurer; he tricked  people  with  money,  was  a  speculator,  con  man  (e.g.,  old ladies).  

Social: Ambition. The most pushy of Twos, like the Prestige Three. Egocentric in a completely different way, seduction through achievement or semblance of. achievement, focus on power, More propagandizing (where the Three is more sharp,  witty), more flamboyant, makes more claims. A little colder, not so warm as the other Two subtypes.

Enneagram Three

Self-Preservation: Security.  In  their  obsession  for  security  they  make  themselves sure  of  themselves. These  Threes  are too  sure  of  themselves.  They  reject  the  experience  of  insecurity.  They  seem  to  be  more  demanding  of  "This  is  what  I  want!"  They  are  less  pleasing,  Even  in  relationships there  may  be  a  sexual issue but beneath it is a search for security. Very cautious. Over-confident,  the image  of  the  person  who  "has  it  all  together." The first time I saw this type I was in bed with a married woman whose husband came home and began to walk along the corridor toward the room, and she said, "Take it easy, he never comes into this room" and I was surprised she could be so at ease.

Sexual: Masculinity/Femininity.  Sex  appeal,  attractive  image  (more  a  physical  image).  The  man  is "strong"  but  not  the  same  strength  of  impulse,  more  "looking" rough,  like  the  Marlboro  Man.  As  if  the more the person is dependent on the image or identifies with the image, the less freedom there is to be something else; e.g., being so attached to lipstick you could not go out on the street without it. Because of the connection with the Six Strength and Beauty subtype, those issues will show up also. Seeks to beattractive to the other.

Social: Prestige. Here you might say that prestige is the wish that your values are acknowledged, seen, recognized. That's normal; every child has a need for his or her value to be seen; if there's a wound there so that would develop into a passion, vanity is a distortion. It's not only driving you because you have towork for love, but that you are pursuing values that are not your own values; e.g., in societies where "fat" women are more marriageable. The Little Prince said, "Grown-ups always ask 'How much money do you make?'  They  never  ask  'Do  you  like  butterflies?'"  Seeking  to  be  attractive  to  the  whole  world (conspicuous  consumption).  If  you  spend  enough  you  will be  known  as  a  rich  person,  a  successful person. Attracts more money—money is tied to "reputation." It is said of Jacque Onassis that her G-spot was in the shopping mall! Another woman at a furrier's trying on a mink coat and saying, "Don't you have another coat? This one is below my means."

Enneagram Four 

Self-Preservation: Tenacious.  Different  from  other  Fours  (who  are  very  oral  in  their  drive  to  get something  good  from  the  outside).  More  self-sacrificing,  more  self-contained.  A  denial  of  envy,  trouble finding  envy  in  themselves,  partly  because  of  the  descriptions  in  vogue  when  the  Enneagram  first became  known.  So  afraid  of  dependency,  of  being  hurt,  they  become  counterdependent,  autonomous. Self-demanding  ("No  matter  what  it  may  cost...").  Instead  of  demanding  from the outside  world,  they demand from themselves. Self-devouring; they can turn on themselves with cruelty—"I'll make myself do it!" Van Gogh is an example. His painting became a kind of religion and he chose a life of great poverty "for his art." He sold one painting in his lifetime, yet recently the Sunflower sold for $54 million. (Gaugin was an Eight.) This subtype doesn't play the victim; volunteers as martyr without exhibiting it, more of anobleness.  

Sexual: Competition  (Hate).  Competitive  anger  ("I  want  that,  too!").  Where  the  Social  Four  makes comparisons and feels "little," the Sexual Four experiences envy in the sense of denying their inferiority ("I  should  have  it.  It's  unfair  that  I  don't!")  An arrogant  position,  a  covering  up  a  little  bit  like  the  Two covering up their Four connection; e.g., Baudelaire's mother remarried when he was eight years old and he made such a fuss about being replaced by a stepfather that he ended up being put out on the streets. His  position  was  always  demanding  and  arrogant.  He  transformed  the  feeling  of  misunderstood  genius into  art  in  his  poetry.  Angry  envy.  The  word  "envy"  in Latin  has  to  do  with  vision,  with  seeing,  with  the "evil  eye,"  wanting  something  bad  to  happen  to  the  enemy.  "Borderline  3  Personality"  describes  the sense  of what we'd call a Sexual Four. Very intensely desiring. You want something so much you push until you are rejected. You have so much desire to be accepted you act invasively. The fantasy that you would be rejected leads to the very behavior that gets you rejected.  

Social: Shame.  Social  Fours  develop  mechanisms  for  calling  negative  attention  to  themselves.  The shyest  of  the  Four  subtypes.  There's  a  shame  about  desiring,  about  "loving."  Proust  is  filled  with  the Social envy of the person dazzled by the "aristocracy," who has a passion for being "in", who wants to be included, to receive their favors. A feeling of "I'm nothing," "I'm ugly," "I'm silly." Fours in general want to absorb through their gaze, but this is especially true for the Social Four.  

Enneagram Five

Self-Preservation: Lair. Metaphorically, hiding inside a cave or castle with thick walls, creating a private space.  More  sadness,  more  suffering,  more  yearning,  more  nostalgia.  Hidden  because  of  inability  to confront, not wanting to show their non-social side. Rebellious. Wanting to be private, not knowing what to say, not able to "flow." Shy, socially awkward. The most avoidant. Disconnected from the body. A kind of zombie obedience. Anger is perceived subliminally as something "dirty" (Fives have issues in general with anger). Misanthropy, generalized disdain of ordinary mortals. The Unibomber. Fives that have come to power and become cruel. The Roman Emperor Iberius might have been a Self-Preservation Five. He chose not to live in Rome but on an island on the river. He was fond of torturing people and liked to bepresent at the torture.

Sexual: Confidence (passion to confide). Looks for the ultimate in another person. A little more assertive and with more feeling than other Fives. Chopin was verbally curtailed and prone to feeling oppressed by social  gatherings  and  by  the  only  relationship  with  a woman  in  his  life.  He  almost  couldn't  "take"  any relationship,  but  there  was  an  outpouring  in  his  music.  Someone  who  puts  own  self  into  animals,  into activity  (e.g.,  Najinsky).  (Tells  story  of  female Five in a workshop who wanted him to work with her but Naranjo  was  exhausted;  she  said "Maybe one of these nights we could go for a walk in the moonlight," like an excess of confidence in a specific person: "This person has to be somebody who cares so much for me that I become the one and I'm confident in that relationship.")

Social: Totem. Quite cold. Overidealization of persons as being after super-human things, beyond hero-worship—may  be  ideas,  systems  (not  just  people)—searching  for  the  absolute.  Sometimes  they  think they  may  be  Threes  because  of  the  impoverishment.  Searching  for  the  Absolute  (e.g.,  Philosopher's Stone).  

Enneagram Six

Self-Preservation: Warmth  (harmless).  Very  soft,  "See  how  nice  I am?" Like an animal showing its soft underbelly,  "I'm  no  threat."  Completely  the  opposite of Strength  and  Beauty;  here  it's  based  on convincing the other, "I'm completely unarmed, very soft, so you can drop your own arms." "I don't bite, so  you  don't  have  to  bite  me."  "I'm  completely  harmless."  To  show  that  you  are  harmless, you have to bottle  up  a  lot  of  anger,  to  seek  someone  who  can  protect  you.  There  are  polarities  of  strength  and weakness, although you don't speak of "weakness," you speak of life as an exchange of affection. (Points to Six in the group who is always smiling and says, "Your face says, 'See how nice I am?'")  

Sexual: Strength  and  Beauty.  The  strength  is  a  strength  of  impulse,  a  knowledge  that  if  sexual  life  is going  to  operate  there  has  to  be  some  kind  of  voltage,  and  let's  say  that  fear  is  interfering  with  that process.  It's  as  if  there  would  be  compensation.  A  drive  to make  it  unfold,  as  if  fear  were  not  there.  A "push"  forward  as  if  "You're  not  going  to  hold  me  back!"  "Counterphobic"  is  an  alternative  term  for Strength  and  Beauty.  They  might  be  body  builders,  but  women  can  be  just  as  strong  as  men.  There might  be  an  ability  to  stand  by  one's ideals or being confrontive with an element of moral integrity. But even the men have a thing about "beauty" – the word for "beauty" in the Latin language is bellum, which comes from war - so it has something to do with aggression, passion about beauty; e.g., Michaelangelo was  a  counterphobic  Six  who  would  speak  up,  not  let  himself  be  bossed  around. (Tells story of female friend who is an analyst and who said to a taxi driver, "Slower please!" and Naranjo remarked "You have more authority than I" because there was command in her statement. He commented "I'm shyer than you are," and she replied "It's not courage, it's panic.") The kind of strength that Pop-Eye has with spinach is a  natural  instinct  that’s  "boosted,"  an  element  of  intention  that  has  become  automatic.  Very  strong people, powerful men and women who typically don't have a very happy sex life. They can be abrasive but  underneath  shy  and  sensitive  and  not  very  fulfilled  in  relationships.  Here,  you  harm  yourself  by developing your physical muscles or your psychological "muscles" in your capacity to intimidate—a kind of bulldog. For the sexual Six "the best defense is aggression." The real courage is to drop the fire-arms, to develop more of the "wisdom of insecurity," to be able to say "I'm scared."

Social: Duty.  This  subtype  is  about  being  protected,  being  in  a  warm  environment,  which  is  a  different strategy from Strength and Beauty. In being a Social Six, you need rules and you become too dependent on rules. The world is your stage, the rules are universal. This subtype is sometimes called "dutiful," but is  really not  very  dutiful;  it  brings  up  so  much  rebellion  and  sometimes  they  pretend  to  be  much  more dutiful than they are. It's only the driven quality that's experienced as a super-ego. It's authority based on a system. “Hitler’s henchmen.”

Enneagram Seven 

Self-Preservation: Family (doesn't need to be "blood" family). Very earthy, sensuous, focused on tastes, colors,  tactile  stimulation;  a  little  cynical  like  the  Eight,  not  so  gullible;  counting  on  one  another  is important;  very  tender,  family  man.  Pain  is  not  felt directly;  transforms  shit  to  cream  (then  might  say, "Not enough cream!"). More for oneself, more opportunistic. Good at business. Epicurean (also applies a little bit to the Social subtype). A bit more selfish. (Tells story of man who put ads in the papers in France offering  financial advice for widows at a time when it was difficult for women to invest, when they were required  to  have  a  lawyer  or  some  mediation.  This man offered his "fatherly" service and a little romance, took them to his country house, then poisoned them, cut them into pieces and burned them. He was a very respected, law-abiding citizen, who "only did it to get money for my childrens' education.")

Sexual: Suggestibility.  More  extraterrestrial;  actually  not  very  sexual—more poetic,  more  the  dreamer. The   "charmed  charmer."  Prestidigitator.  More  narcissistic.  Like  being  in  love,  more  enthusiastic ("Tomorrow  my enthusiasm might take me in another direction"), mania. Not so much into pleasures of this world, more extraterrestrial. May not be very sexual in the literal sense.

Social: Service. More ambitious, Six-ish, willing to accept limitations in service of recognition; also very helpful/giving of love in search of recognition; sweetness in exchange for service. Creating an imaginary "perfectionism"  (Dickens  almost  killed  himself  with  hard  work).  "Good  people,"  do-gooders.  Echoes  the Two  a  bit,  "seducing"  the  world.  A  bit  of  an  Epicurean,  a  sense  of  sensationalism  (Walt  Whitman). Monkey mind.  

Enneagram Eight

Self-Preservation: Satisfaction.  Less  known  about  this  subtype  because they don't want to talk about it. More Machiavellian. You do what you need to do to get what you want. More anti-social. Great desire for privacy, more Five-ish, less feeling. More contained, less visible as an Eight.

Sexual: Possession/Obsession.  Very  angry  and  dramatic.  More  emotional,  hysterical,  in  the  broader sense  (more  bravado).  The  will  to  take  hold  of  the  other  and  make  them do what you want, tyrannical; passion for possession and surrender (like the Praying Mantis). "Going whole hog including the postage," full  involvement,  more  "sadistic."  More  angry,  more liking  to  humiliate  or  insult,  sometimes  to  cause suffering (e.g., Stalin or Hussein).

Social: Complicity  (friendship  without  judgment).  Easy  to  confuse  with counterphobic  Six,  but  more body/motor focused (where the Six in more "in the head'). Harder to recognize, not apparently angry but very   friendly.   Key   element   =   "accompliceship"   or   survival   through   alliance.   More   "narcissistic." Seductiveness   makes   it   possible   to   be  an  Eight  in  the  world.  Overwhelms  out  of  selfishness, incontinence, gusto.  

Enneagram Nine

Self-Preservation: Appetite.  The  "heavy"  ones.  Feel heavy,  may  take  a  lot  to  fill  a  void.  Serves sloth through appetite, but "eating" of a different order (obesity can be a drive, a passion; e.g., Sancho Panza). Fusion  with  own  body  where  yearning  for  affection,  "doing  without"  is  somaticized.  Very  concrete, interested  in  concrete  things  (e.g.,  a  piece  of  land).  "I  eat  (or  "I  shop"  or  "I  collect"),  therefore  I  am." Yearning  for  love  turns  into  something  wider  than  just  eating,  like  "having"  instead  of  "being."  More aggressive, but doesn't know it (steam roller). Can be invasive, talkative ("epic tale"), can smother out of need to give. Merges with things—environment, pets, etc. In spite of the Nine being so generous, it's still this concreteness where value resides—just wants to breathe!

Sexual: Union.  The  "weak"  ones.  The  most tender  of  the  Nine  subtypes.  Becomes  conscious  of  self through  the  other,  finds  "being"  through  the  other (merges  with  one  person).  Confluence,  fusion  with mother;  with  others  can  become  unconscious  of  the  fusion;  symbiosis  (living  too  much  through  the other), confusion (real contact would be awareness of differences). "Steam-rolled." Not original instinctual situation where at a literal level it's a coming together in a healthy way; a "mockery" of togetherness vs. coming together out of individuation.  

Social: Participation.   Here   are   the   gregarious   Nines.   "Union",   but   with a   group—family,   team, organization,  nation,  humankind.  Undeveloped,  very  provincial,  narrow  view—a  kind  of  "peasant" mentality.  (The  Social  Six  is  more  a  hero-worshiper, more  hierarchical.) Merges  with  group,  not  in contact with own being; deriving sense of being not from contact with own being but through feeling the value  of  the  group  you're  in.. ("As an individual, I'm nothing, but as a group I'm very powerful.") A little movement seems like a lot.