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Claudio Naranjo, Ennea-Type Structures: Self-Analysis for the Seeker, Gateways/IDHHB,Inc., 1990

Outline of Ennea-Type Structures

Angry Virtue (Ennea-Type I)

  • Anger and Perfectionism
  • Trait Structure
    • Anger
    • Criticality
    • Demandingness
    • Dominance
    • Perfectionism
    • Over-Control
    • Self-Criticism
    • Discipline

Egocentric Generosity (Ennea-Type II)

  • Pride and Histrionism
  • Trait Structure
    • Pride
    • Love Need
    • Hedonism
    • Seductiveness
    • Assertiveness
    • Nurturance and False Abundance
    • Histrionism
    • Impressionable Emotionality

Success through Appearances (Ennea-Type III)

  • Vanity, Inauthenticity and the "Marketing Orientation"
  • Trait Structure
    • Attention Need and Vanity
    • Achieving Orientation
    • Social Sophistication and Skill
    • Cultivation of Sexual Attractiveness
    • Deceit and Image Manipulation
    • Other-Directedness
    • Pragmatism
    • Active Vigilance
    • Superficiality

Seeking Happiness through Pain (Ennea-Type IV)

  • Envy and the Masochistic Personality
  • Trait Structure
    • Envy
    • Poor Self-Image
    • Focus on Suffering
    • "Moving Toward"
    • Nurturance
    • Emotionality
    • Competitive Arrogance
    • Refinement
    • Artistic Interests
    • Strong Superego

Seeking Wholeness through Isolation (Ennea-Type V)

  • Avarice and Pathological Detachment
  • Trait Structure
    • Retentiveness
    • Not Giving
    • Pathological Detachment
    • Fear of Engulfment
    • Autonomy
    • Feelinglessness
    • Postponement of Action
    • Cognitive Orientation
    • Sense of Emptiness
    • Guilt
    • High Superego
    • Negativism
    • Hypersensitivity

The Persecuted Persecutor (Ennea-Type VI)

  • Fear and Suspiciousness
  • Trait Structure
    • Fear, Cowardice and Anxiety
    • Over-Alert Hyperintentionality
    • Theoretical Orientation
    • Ingratiating Friendliness
    • Rigidity
    • Pugnacity
    • Orientation to Authority and Ideals
    • Accusation of Self and Others
    • Doubt and Ambivalence

Opportunistic Idealism (Ennea-Type VII)

  • Gluttony, Fraudulence and Narcissism
  • Trait Structure
    • Gluttony
    • Hedonistic Permissiveness
    • Rebelliousness
    • Lack of Discipline
    • Imaginary Wish Fulfillment
    • Seductive Pleasingness
    • Narcissism
    • Persuasiveness
    • Fraudulence

Coming on Strong (Ennea-Type VIII)

  • Lust and Vindinctive Arrogance
  • Trait Structure
    • Lust
    • Punitiveness
    • Rebelliousness
    • Dominance
    • Insensitivity
    • Conning and Cynicism
    • Exhibitionism (Narcissism)
    • Autonomy
    • Sensorimotor Dominance

Going with the Stream (Ennea-Type IX)

  • Accidia, the Passion for Comfort and the Overadjusted Disposition
  • Trait Structure
    • Psychological Inertia
    • Over-Adaptation
    • Resignation
    • Generosity
    • Ordinariness
    • Robotic Habit-Boundedness
    • Distractibility

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