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Personality Type Eight: The Leader
The Powerful, Expansive, Dictatorial, Destructive Person
| Childhood Origin: |
Ambivalent to mother-figure. |
| Basic Fear: |
Of submitting to another. |
| Basic Desire: |
To be self-reliant. |
| Healthy Sense of Self: |
I am strong. |
| Characteristic Temptation: |
To be too self-sufficient. |
| Characteristic Vice: |
Lust. |
| Characteristic Virtue: |
Magnanimity. |
| Hidden Complaint: |
I am fighting for my own survival, and others would take advantage
of me if I let them. |
| Key Defense Mechanisms: |
Repression, displacement, denial. |
Don Richard Riso
Understanding the Enneagram:
The Practical Guide to Personality Types
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, 288 pages
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