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Personality Type Five: The Thinker
The Perceptive, Analytic, Eccentric, Paranoid Person
| Childhood Origin: |
Ambivalent to parental-figures. |
| Basic Fear: |
Of being overwhelmed. |
| Basic Desire: |
To understand the environment. |
| Healthy Sense of Self: |
I am perceptive. |
| Characteristic Temptation: |
To be too analytic. |
| Characteristic Vice: |
Avarice. |
| Characteristic Virtue: |
Understanding. |
| Hidden Complaint: |
I am so smart that no one else can understand the things I understand
or appreciate the things I know. |
| Key Defense Mechanisms: |
Displacement, projection, isolation. |
Don Richard Riso
Understanding the Enneagram:
The Practical Guide to Personality Types
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, 288 pages
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