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Characterological Structure Fixation: Vanity Strives for degrees, positions of importance, power over others. Trap: Efficiency He has little patience with inefficiency in others, and is looking for more effective and quicker methods of achieving ...

Characterological Structure Fixation: MelancholyNever happy with the present, always looking toward a happy future. Trap: AuthenticityFor this person, the really real mate will always be just around the comer of the next hour or day, or year. With ...

Characterological Structure Fixation: StinginessDesires anonymity and to view life from the sidelines Trap: Observer For him life is fascinating to watch from a safe hidden place, but is much too terrifying to take part in. Holy Idea: Holy Omni...

Passion: Fear Fear as the ruling passion is mostly unconscious, therefore, it can manifest in the form of openly expressed anxiety, aggression, amiability, reservation, orientation to authority, being outspoken and reactive, being antagonistic etc etc...

Characterological Structure Modern Enneagram Passion: GluttonyAn order of values that puts pleasure above everything else.[1] A feeling of present insufficiency that seeks fulfillment in the escape towards satisfaction, pleasure and enthusiasm, tha...

Characterological Structure Modern Enneagram Passion: Lust Intense, gusto, contact, sensory-motor disposition, passionately in favor of lust/hedonism in life, need to prove themselves/that things deemed "bad" are not that bad, need stimulation/exc...

Passion: Sloth Sloth, in this context, refers to an unconscious psychological self-forgetfulness. A psychological self-fragmentation and inertia that leaves the self fuzzy, indistinct and dispersed, that a person doesn't have a clearly defined ego bou...

Envy in the Sexual Sphere The Envy of the SX4 is closest to the most literal meaning of the word. When Envy comes into contact with this instinct it produces a character competes with others in an attempt to gain approval or recognition. They then make others...

Anger in the Sexual Sphere Originally the SX instinct with the Anger of a 1 would produce a highly jealous character which was afraid that someone more perfect would come along to steal their partner, but Naranjo and his students would change this subtype int...

Anger in the Social Sphere Ironic thing that happens when you mix the Anger of the E1 with the instinct of adaptation, you get a character whose main characteristic is non-adaptability. These people have difficulty of going along with social customs and behav...