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Enneagram Main Board Archive Re: Does dysfunction mask type?Posted by PseudoName on June 26, 1999 at 09:48:33: In Reply to: Re: Does dysfunction mask type? posted by Dave on June 25, 1999 at 22:18:20: > > My question is - how accurate is e-typing when the personality is dysfunctional? > All e-types are dysfunctional manifestations to varying degrees. Can you be a little more specific? it is both obvious and unnecessary to point out that all e-types are dysfunctional to some degree. The process of typing, by definition, points out fixations/flaws/attractions. That is not my question. My question is, does stress/personality flux/dysfunction, etc., mask type, or does it exaggerate type? If so, are there predictable paths of such, i.e., the triangulation of healthy/unhealthy modes is one of them. Are there others? Do you know of case histories/examples etc? > Does one become more purely 'who' they are when dysfunctional, or less so? > No. No? No what? Can you be more specific? > > Not in my view. > > Could be. But, 4's always are delving into issues when they're entranced in the 4 mode. What are like when you're not delving into these "issues"? OUnless you're always delving into them. This is, the only point you make that has any relevance. I did not used to be a person who endlessly attempted to figure myself out. I decided who/what I was, and then just did that thing. Now, I am caught up in permutations of what if and what is and what is not. New ideas and philosophies/ways of being have become too critical to ignore. Therefore my distress and my questions.
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