Enneagram (own) Flashcards
Ichazo
the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School
Ichazo’s Enneagram is
part of a larger body of teaching that he terms Protoanalysis
In Ichazo’s teachings the enneagram figure has usually been called . . .
an enneagon
Ichazo understands the fixations as aberrations from an essential state of unity. The primary difference between modern psychology and his theories is . .
. . . that he has proposed a model of the components of the human psyche, but modern psychology has preferred to focus on observed behavior instead of an essential model from which aberrations develop
Some modern Enneagram of Personality writers have believed that Ichazo’s teaching are derived, in part, from those of . . .
Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way work
In 1992 intellectual copyright for the Enneagram of Personality was denied to Ichazo on the basis that . . .
he had published statements that his theories were factual and factual ideas cannot be copyrighted
Ichazo’s teachings are designed to help people transcend . . .
. . . their identification with — and the suffering caused by — their own mechanistic thought and behavior patterns
His theories about the fixations are founded on the premise that . . .
. . . all life seeks to continue and perpetuate itself and that the human psyche must follow universal laws of reality
Ichazo described a kind of logic called
“Trialectic” logic grounded in three laws of process
Ichazo referred to the characterizations as ___ rather than “personality types” and he repeatedly emphasized
“fixations” rather than “personality types” and he repeatedly emphasized that every human being contains all nine types
The Arica School is
A “human potential movement group”; a body of techniques for cosmic consciousness-raising and an ideology to relate to the world in an awakened way
three instinctual questions that Ichazo considered basic to human existence
“How am I?”, “Who am I with?”, “What am I doing?”
the popular use of the Enneagram of Personality (as contrasted with the use of enneagrams within the Arica School) began principally with ___ who had studied with Ichazo in Chile
Claudio Naranjo
___ considers ‘s ___’s understanding of the Enneagram to be limited and incomplete
Ichazo / Naranjo
Naranjo’s major contribution to the Enneagram of Personality was
his addition of defense mechanisms to the model developed by Ichazo
G. I. Gurdjieff is credited with making the enneagram figure commonly known . . . he did not
develop the nine personality types associated with the Enneagram
characteristic roles (1-3)
Reformer, Helper, Achiever
characteristic roles (4-6)
Individualist, Investigator, Loyalist
characteristic roles (7-9)
Enthusiast, Challenger, Peacemaker
ego fixations (1-3)
resentment, flattery (ingratiation), vanity
ego fixations (4-6)
melanchony (fantasizing), stinginess (retention), cowardice (worrying)
ego fixations (7-9)
planning (anticipation), vengeance (objectification), indolence (daydreaming)
The points numbered ___ are said to represent which affect the way a process develops
3 and 6 / “shock points”
Gurdjieff also remarked “In order to understand the enneagram it must be thought of as
in motion, as moving. A motionless enneagram is a dead symbol, the living symbol is in motion
The Law of Three holds that three forces act on any event, which can be called
Active, Passive, and Neutralizing forces, or simply First, Second, and Third forces respectively
These three forces can appear in any order, 123 for example or 312, giving 6 possible “triads” of forces describing 6 very broad types of event. [12]Humanity is said to be
“third force blind”, to have difficulty recognizing the third force, which may appear to us in the guise of a result or of a background environment
On the Fourth Way enneagram, the 1-4-2-8-5-7, along with 9, are said to represent . . .
the main stages of any complete process, and can be related to the notes of a musical octave, 9 being equivalent to “Doh” and 1 to “Re” etc
