Posted by Derf on June 27, 1999 at 15:51:59:
In Reply to: Re: Livin' La Vida Enneagram posted by Ryan on June 27, 1999 at 14:58:22:
I quote Claudio Naranjo, a theorist who, like Johnny Five, is up in his head WAY too much, though Mr. Naranjo, unlike Five, is able, or at least willing, to back up his craziness with real intellectual guts (i.e., actually explaining his view, instead of merely adopting a vague, self-granted, and otherwise completely inexplicable "my-brain-is-bigger-than-thou's" air.
Anyway, here's Naranjo's quote, from *Character and Neurosis*, in the chapter about Nines.
"It [the type IX person] is also the most ectopenic, and in this we may see a constitutional predisposition to the lack of inwardness in the type IX character."
To Johnny: try using deadweight phrases like "constitutional predisposition" more.