Enneagram (own)

Question 1

Ichazo

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the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School

Question 2

Ichazo’s Enneagram is

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part of a larger body of teaching that he terms Protoanalysis

Question 3

In Ichazo’s teachings the enneagram figure has usually been called . . .

Answer 3

an enneagon

Question 4

Ichazo understands the fixations as aberrations from an essential state of unity. The primary difference between modern psychology and his theories is . .

Answer 4

. . . 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

Question 5

Some modern Enneagram of Personality writers have believed that Ichazo’s teaching are derived, in part, from those of . . .

Answer 5

Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way work

Question 6

In 1992 intellectual copyright for the Enneagram of Personality was denied to Ichazo on the basis that . . .

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he had published statements that his theories were factual and factual ideas cannot be copyrighted

Question 7

Ichazo’s teachings are designed to help people transcend . . .

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. . . their identification with — and the suffering caused by — their own mechanistic thought and behavior patterns

Question 8

His theories about the fixations are founded on the premise that . . .

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. . . all life seeks to continue and perpetuate itself and that the human psyche must follow universal laws of reality

Question 9

Ichazo described a kind of logic called

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“Trialectic” logic grounded in three laws of process

Question 10

Ichazo referred to the characterizations as ___ rather than “personality types” and he repeatedly emphasized

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“fixations” rather than “personality types” and he repeatedly emphasized that every human being contains all nine types

Question 11

The Arica School is

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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

Question 12

three instinctual questions that Ichazo considered basic to human existence

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“How am I?”, “Who am I with?”, “What am I doing?”

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Claudio Naranjo

Question 14

___ considers ‘s ___’s understanding of the Enneagram to be limited and incomplete

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Ichazo / Naranjo

Question 15

Naranjo’s major contribution to the Enneagram of Personality was

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his addition of defense mechanisms to the model developed by Ichazo

Question 16

G. I. Gurdjieff is credited with making the enneagram figure commonly known . . . he did not

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develop the nine personality types associated with the Enneagram

Question 17

characteristic roles (1-3)

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Reformer, Helper, Achiever

Question 18

characteristic roles (4-6)

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Individualist, Investigator, Loyalist

Question 19

characteristic roles (7-9)

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Enthusiast, Challenger, Peacemaker

Question 20

ego fixations (1-3)

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resentment, flattery (ingratiation), vanity

Question 21

ego fixations (4-6)

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melanchony (fantasizing), stinginess (retention), cowardice (worrying)

Question 22

ego fixations (7-9)

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planning (anticipation), vengeance (objectification), indolence (daydreaming)

Question 23

The points numbered ___ are said to represent which affect the way a process develops

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3 and 6 / “shock points”

Question 24

Gurdjieff also remarked “In order to understand the enneagram it must be thought of as

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in motion, as moving. A motionless enneagram is a dead symbol, the living symbol is in motion

Question 25

The Law of Three holds that three forces act on any event, which can be called

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Active, Passive, and Neutralizing forces, or simply First, Second, and Third forces respectively

Question 26

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

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“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

Question 27

On the Fourth Way enneagram, the 1-4-2-8-5-7, along with 9, are said to represent . . .

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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