Claudio Naranjo

Ennea-Type Structures
Self-Analysis for the Seeker
Gateways/IDHHB,Inc., 1990, 169 pages

Outline of Ennea-Type Structures

Angry Virtue (Ennea-Type I)

• Anger and Perfectionism
• Trait Structure
• Anger
• Criticality
• Demandingness
• Dominance
• Perfectionism
• Over-Control
• Self-Criticism
• Discipline

Egocentric Generosity (Ennea-Type II)

• Pride and Histrionism
• Trait Structure
• Pride
• Love Need
• Hedonism
• Seductiveness
• Assertiveness
• Nurturance and False Abundance
• Histrionism
• Impressionable Emotionality

Success through Appearances (Ennea-Type III)

• Vanity, Inauthenticity and the "Marketing Orientation"
• Trait Structure
• Attention Need and Vanity
• Achieving Orientation
• Social Sophistication and Skill
• Cultivation of Sexual Attractiveness
• Deceit and Image Manipulation
• Other-Directedness
• Pragmatism
• Active Vigilance
• Superficiality

Seeking Happiness through Pain (Ennea-Type IV)

• Envy and the Masochistic Personality
• Trait Structure
• Envy
• Poor Self-Image
• Focus on Suffering
• "Moving Toward"
• Nurturance
• Emotionality
• Competitive Arrogance
• Refinement
• Artistic Interests
• Strong Superego

Seeking Wholeness through Isolation (Ennea-Type V)

• Avarice and Pathological Detachment
• Trait Structure
• Retentiveness
• Not Giving
• Pathological Detachment
• Fear of Engulfment
• Autonomy
• Feelinglessness
• Postponement of Action
• Cognitive Orientation
• Sense of Emptiness
• Guilt
• High Superego
• Negativism
• Hypersensitivity

The Persecuted Persecutor (Ennea-Type VI)

• Fear and Suspiciousness
• Trait Structure
• Fear, Cowardice and Anxiety
• Over-Alert Hyperintentionality
• Theoretical Orientation
• Ingratiating Friendliness
• Rigidity
• Pugnacity
• Orientation to Authority and Ideals
• Accusation of Self and Others
• Doubt and Ambivalence

Opportunistic Idealism (Ennea-Type VII)

• Gluttony, Fraudulence and Narcissism
• Trait Structure
• Gluttony
• Hedonistic Permissiveness
• Rebelliousness
• Lack of Discipline
• Imaginary Wish Fulfillment
• Seductive Pleasingness
• Narcissism
• Persuasiveness
• Fraudulence

Coming on Strong (Ennea-Type VIII)

• Lust and Vindinctive Arrogance
• Trait Structure
• Lust
• Punitiveness
• Rebelliousness
• Dominance
• Insensitivity
• Conning and Cynicism
• Exhibitionism (Narcissism)
• Autonomy
• Sensorimotor Dominance

Going with the Stream (Ennea-Type IX)

• Accidia, the Passion for Comfort and the Overadjusted Disposition
• Trait Structure
• Psychological Inertia
• Over-Adaptation
• Resignation
• Generosity
• Ordinariness
• Robotic Habit-Boundedness
• Distractibility