Posted by Laurence on December 28, 2000 at 01:19:03:
The Enneagram is built on the presupposition of a core belief which organises the whole personality as if it was its spinal bone, while the MBTI describes capacities and behaviors in a rather binary way, The enneagram is a dynamic inductive system while the MBTI is a static factorial description, the former sets its motion from the core while the later starts from what's visible outside. Such basic differences may explain why there are some correlations yet it isn't a one to one correlation. I tend to agree with Cory that several MBTI types may describe one single etype, but there can't be major contradictions...