C1 vs. SO1

Both types repress anger, but it results in different behavioral attitudes. The conservation E1 is warm, characterized by a rather welcoming personality. They believe that value can be achieved through being perfect themselves, which often involves subordination to external expectations and values. If it is not external values that define their behavior, it will be internal ones and a sense of moral duty, accompanied by a fear of becoming corrupt or somehow deficient. C1 is a self-perfectionist with a strong superego (conscience) to which he entirely subordinates himself. He internalizes the conduct taught to him as a child and follows along to feel secure, loved, and stable in this world. The primary cognitive distortion can be put as “I can only be loved and secure if I am perfect.”

The social E1, in contrast, is arrogant, cold, and detached. It’s the most intellectual of Ones and of all action-triad characters in general. Intellect is put at the service of action and impulse, which results in the impulse to correct, to show “how things are done.” As opposed to the C1, they are not defined by a passion for perfection alone, but by a passion for correctness that results from perfection. Being perfect allows them to become moral and ideological arbiters, people who stand on top of society as aristocratic figures and can tell others, “I am right, you are wrong.” Perfectionism as a fixation is subordinated to a passion for superiority motored by maladaptation. The cognitive distortion can be regarded as “I am perfect, and thus I can judge others” or “Being perfect puts me above others.”