Posted by Andy on June 25, 1998 at 14:27:39:
In Reply to: Re: Telling 3 from 7 - continued posted by walter on June 25, 1998 at 12:29:54:
: New Comment: I just saw this mesage and your "hello walter"
: I agree 100 percent plus some!
: IS and the 7 sin of gluttony sure are related. This is how I model it on the Geldart Enneagram of Consciousness.
: Point Seven has structure of Jungian functions of consciousness.
: Enneagram Point Seven has a dominant extraverted side
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: Dominant.............................Auxiliary
: Personality 1 side...................Personality 2 side
: Extraversion (outward attention).....Introverted (inward attention)
: Persona Side.........................Shadow Side
: 1st sensation(Se or ES) ...........5th sensation (Si or IS)
: 2nd thinking(Te or ET).............6th thinking (Ti or IT)
: 3rd feeling (Fe or EF).............7th feeling (Fi or IF)
: 4th intuition (Ne or EN)...........8th intuition(Ni or IN)
I find your chart a bit mixed up with impossible combinations (if we buy
MBTI). Enough about that...
: So Seven's gluttony (in the 7-8-3 Agressive id Hornevian Triad) is first sees behaviorally as an overuse of the extraverted sensation function.
: BUt you can see that it is motivated on the Shadow side by introverted sensation.
: Jung said that it is easier for the Seven (with dominant Se) to be aware in consciousness of inferior introverted intuition (Ni-9)- because it is a free ride. But Seven while placing full attention on that beer in the bar, and imagining one more for the road - is ignoring the Shadow Si-8. Eventually, in the limit Seven is dead drunk, no control (lousy Si functioning), and maybe dead in ahead-on collision. So the Hornevian Triad shows that the 7-8-3 track works as a whole triad. More beer to taste is 3-7, less sense of control in lifting beer mug is 8-3. Collision with a tree is a messd up face at 3 - A backed-up Persona. It all hangs together!
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As mentioned before I see a link between the enneagram and MBTI. In oposite
to some others I don't belive in a absolute link, but I think there is a high
colleration rate between the two systems.
To me there seems to be some MBTI types there are easy to confuse. Infact
every function can be quite easy to confuse.
Walter I do guess you agree with all I have written above.
Here comes the tricky part.
If we talk of MBTI types that fit into enneagramnumbers, I think your stereotyped
connection is wrong (supported by my EN ), and that you makes the matters more complicated than
nescecarry. No matter how mutch I twist it I can't get your link's to fit
with my mind.
As written in my previos post, I belive in a link between suprior and inferior
MBTI function and a person's enneagram number.
One of these link's I see in type seven.
To start with the dominant and posetive (stereotype) function EN.
Optimism and a view towards the future (some even live in the future like me)
Curiosity
Inferior (stereotype) function that can be destructive, IS.
Gluttony (getting in toutch with the inferior IS )
Pain Representing the hypersensetive IS, and the way from pleasure
(often gluttony) to pain is short. Two different kind's of ice-creams
can represent this.
To take the oposite of this...
Dominant IS,
Pessimism and a view backwards (living in the past).
Inferior EN
kick's in a fatalistic way telling "worst case scenarios".
In oposite to you
I think this worst case scenarios is a result of inferior EN and not ET
as you have in yout theory (since you place inferior ET at 6).
So if we fit worst case scenarios and pessimism to enneatype 6, I belive
the dominant and inferor function's of type six often are as I have written
above.
Something I miss from you is a logical explanation of the way you adress
certain MBTI functions at certain enneanumbers. You just makes a statement
that 7 is ES. But when did a dominant ES start to look like optimism and
a look towards the future ?
Or how can we explain the colorful inner world of many fours with
EN ?
I could ask questions like that on all the numbers (exept 2 and 5 where we agree),
but I have the impression that I am stuck and getting nowhere trying to
discuss this with you.
To all of you...I know my argument's are pretty general and not so very well
formulated, but there is a question about how mutch time this discussion is worth.