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Passions

Childhood Wounds Passions Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

The Regret of the basic fault:

Healing the Original Wound with Psychoanalytic Insight and Mourning A Response to the Work of Antonio Barbato Carl Marsak “If the flesh came into...

by Carl Marsak June 4, 2024June 3, 2024
Latest Research Passions Understanding the Enneagram

From Essence to Birth of Ego

Antonio Barbato This article is a companion piece to the thoughts expressed in a previous article, “Inner Polarities: The Structure of Passion” (Enneagram Monthly,...

by Antonio Barbato June 2, 2024June 2, 2024
Passions Relationships Type 6

SixMix: contradiction

Ann Kirby The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound...

by Ann Kirby May 8, 2024April 29, 2024
History Passions Virtues

A Quote from Evagrius of Pontus

Submitted by Frederic Schmitt Evagrius of Pontus, one of the fathers of Christian monasticism is also in a certain way one of the “fathers”...

by Frederic Schmitt April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Centers of Intelligence Fixations History Holy Ideas Passions Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Two alternative Types of Type-Definition (part 1)

Enneagram Polarities Nicholas Reitter But the old oracle said, “All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.” – Emerson1 It is an...

by Nicholas Reitter April 10, 2024July 16, 2024
Centers of Intelligence Passions Relationships Spirituality Therapy and Counselling Understanding the Enneagram

Nine Types and the Emotional Habits

Peter O'Hanrahan It’s time to revise the nine passions or vices which are assigned to the nine enneagram types. Our enneagram shorthand has been...

by Peter O'Hanrahan April 8, 2024April 9, 2024
Comparative Systems Latest Research Passions

The Polarities of Passion: Then and Now

This article is part of the “Finding Buried Treasures: Getting Reacquainted with Innovative EM Articles and their Authors” series. Originally published as “Inner Polarities:...

by Antonio Barbato and Jack Labanauskas February 24, 2024July 16, 2024
Arica Institute Fixations History Holy Ideas Instincts and Subtypes Passions The Nine Types Triads Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

How Oscar Ichazo Learned and Taught the Enneagram Typology (part 1 of 4) Revised

Oscar Ichazo (1931 – 2020) learned the Enneagram typology from a man whose name he never revealed. When I was his roommate, Naranjo told...

by Bill Gamard February 17, 2024March 30, 2025
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