Episode 4: What are the Instinctual Drives and How Does it Relate to Enneatype?

The Blindspot An Enneagram Podcast

Kara and John dive into describing the instinctual drives, subtypes, and the controversies that exist in the field

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8 – What’s the relationship between the instinctual drives and the personality structure? Subtype as “Disease” and our growth path as a “treatment plan”

11 – Being dominant in an instinct doesn’t mean you’re good at it and what is Kara’s experience of being self preservation dominant

13 – How can our experiences with substances help us to understand our instinctual fears?

16 – If fear itself is not just Six what is Six? What does that mean about the Head Center?

18 – How might the self preservation dominant person experience the body?

22:30 – What’s the difference between an instinctual need and a strategy that’s manufactured by the personality

24:45 – What is the definition of essence? What is an Essence Quality?

32:45 – How does John look at the instincts verses how other teachers might look at the instincts?

37 – How do we differentiate competition coming from an ego structure versus the sexual instinct

40 – What is the special relationship between the instincts and the Enneagram?

42 – How can family be a strategy to meet self preservation needs in addition to social needs?

46 – What are the needs of each instinctual drive?

48 – What’s the difference between self esteem and self regulation in regards to the self preservation instinct

50 – What’s the difference between transcendence and individuation? Is this found in the self preservation instinct?

52:55 – What are resources and foundations and why is this important to the self preservation instinct?

55 – What are the needs of the sexual instinct?

61 – What are the needs of the social instinct?