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Personality Type Four: The Artist
The Creative, Individualistic, Introverted, Depressive Person
| Childhood Origin: |
Disconnected from parental-figures. |
| Basic Fear: |
Of being defective. |
| Basic Desire: |
To understand the self. |
| Healthy Sense of Self: |
I am intuitive. |
| Characteristic Temptation: |
To be too given to fantasy. |
| Characteristic Vice: |
Envy. |
| Characteristic Virtue: |
Emotional balance. |
| Hidden Complaint: |
I am different from others, and I feel I don't really fit in. |
| Key Defense Mechanisms: |
Introjection, displacement, turning against the self. |
Don Richard Riso
Understanding the Enneagram:
The Practical Guide to Personality Types
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, 288 pages
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