self-Preservation Two: Emperor or Goddess
Antonio Barbato When Ambition and Aggression are not mitigated by the Self-Preservation Instinct, the desire to have a particular role, a special importance, is...
Variants with a retracted self-pres instinct
When the instinct of Self-preservation receives scarse attention, we have behaviors that make us feel socially adequate or inadequate, according to the fundamental existential...
Self-preservation one: preoccupation
Antonio Barbato As we know, in type One, Wrath turns into a stimulus to make things better than ever, to spend energies in the...
How many Subtypes or Instinctual Variants are there?
Antonio Barbato From what has been illustrated so far, it is clear that, in first approximation, if the Passions are nine (like the points...
Clarifying Passions: An Enneagram Fractal of Hunger, Ache, and Restlessness
For everyone who has done any in-depth work with their Enneagram type, it is probably obvious that the language used to describe the Enneagram...
Unveiling Timeless Treasures: January 2024’s Fresh Additions From The 30-Year Enneagram Monthly Archive
Throughout January, our team diligently expanded the Enneagram Monthly online catalog with fresh archived content. Take a sneak peek at some of these posts,...
The Love Handles of J. Alfred Prufrock
In The Literary Enneagram, Characters from the Inside Out, Judith Searle says that “T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ offers...
Other points of view on subtypes
Antonio Barbato Most authors who publish books and hold workshops on the subject of subtypes do not follow Ichazo's approach. They seem to believe...