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Gut Triad

• Shared Emotional Theme: Anger

• E1:

• Through reasoning and argumentation, anger is justified and maintained from an attitude of moral superiority. In the 1, the normative moralists of the enneagram, we see anger manifest as resentment, or vehemence in the sexual subtype.

• E8:

• Through vengeance, they act out anger to avoid the feeling of guilt and injustice, from an attitude of power and insatiability. In the 8, the antisocial tough guys of the enneagram, we see anger manifest as fury.

• E9:

• Through resignation, they deny anger to avoid conflict, from an attitude of over-adapting to circumstances. In the 9, the passive-aggressive type on the enneagram, anger manifests as a denied irritation (in their passive attitude) or explosive and childish anger (in their aggressive attitude).

• Shared Intellectual Theme: Skepticism

• Skepticism towards everything that is not concrete and tangible makes the world be seen as a lie. From here, we get anger that wants to resolve this lie through action or concretion.
• E1:

• They create their own system of norms to control the world, where only their truth and their reason matters: “I know what is good and what isn’t, how things should be and how I should be.”

• E8:

• They place themselves above social norms and conventions with an attitude of power toward the world. “I am able and my desire is powerful enough to get anything.”

• E9:

• They go along with the world as it is, from their idea that nothing has importance: “I adapt myself, because I know no matter how much I want it, I won’t get what I want.”

Head Triad

• Shared Emotional Theme: Fear

• E5:

• They isolate themselves to their internal world when they feel fear to find a safe refuge from the world that they consider dangerous, from an attitude of solitary withdrawal, avoidant of the emotion of making contact with the world. In the 5, fear is demonstrated as a splitting between the external and internal world, which translates to coldness and emotional distancing.

• E6:

• They paralyze action and somaticize fear in the form of anxiety or panic attacks in order to not increase fear and blame, from an attitude that is hypervigilant of everything and everyone. In the 6, fear is demonstrated as a search for indisputable and universal certainties and protection from referential figures.

• E7:

• They avoid the assimilation of anxiety-inducing reality to not fear pain, from an attitude of fantastical idealization and carefreeness. In the 7, fear is demonstrated as the strong desire to turn the world into a place full of pleasure.

• Shared Intellectual Theme: Distrust

• Distrust and uncertainty make the world be seen as a danger. Attaining certainty or the possession of the truth through understanding is the intellectual theme belonging to the mental types, in relation to the fear they feel.
• E5:

• Their goal is to avoid external invasion and they refuge themselves in their internal world where knowledge is idealized. Their illusion, “I am independent,” leads them to a splitting, a separation, between what is internal and external.

• E6:

• They obsessively search for certainties to feel protected. Their illusion: “I doubt and I need to understand,” the false security of control (because there are never absolute certainties) and the truth of things.

• E7:

• They look for the way to find a pleasant existence at all costs where they do not have to put in more effort and where conflict and pain do not exist. Their illusion: “I plan and therefore everything will go well.”

Heart Triad

• Shared Emotional Theme: Need

• E2:

• They deny their own need to become necessary for others, from an attitude of “I can do everything,” camouflaged by help. In the 2, need is demonstrated as a denial of their lack, through false abundance and false autonomy.

• E3:

• They resolve their need through identification with an image or action that they think will please others, with a chameleonic and pleasant attitude. In the 3, need is demonstrated as a substitution of the internal feeling of emptiness with impeccability in their image or what they do.

• E4:

• They exaggerate their needs and increase their expectations so others realize what they need, from an attitude of constant disappointment and rare satisfaction. In the 4, need is demonstrated as self-absorption and an inflation of lack from their own self devaluation with the goal of generating compassion in other people that they do not have with themselves.

• Shared Intellectual Theme: Identity

• Identity is the need for the other to know who they are and it originates in the defenselessness that the internal void and need creates. They resolve it by viewing the world as a mirror; the other is who gives me who I am, and through manipulation, they satisfy their  feelings of lack and need.
• E2:

• They have the security of not needing, doing in a way that mirrors others, satisfying others’ needs. They manipulate through helping passionately, because helping “fills them up” and gives them their illusion: “I do not need anything, I can do anything alone, but others need me.”

• E3:

• They exist through the eyes and recognition of others and they think that the most important thing is to comply with the model that satisfies others: “I am recognized and that gives me the right to exist.”

• E4:

• They think their suffering and effort should give them the right to reach their desires: “I put in more effort than other people, and I also suffer more.” Their identity depends on constant comparison, where they always put themselves below.