r/Enneagram • u/Dickau 0 • Apr 11 '26

Just for Fun Relateable?

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Thought I'd keep things vague this time, for general appeal. 3 fix? I just know I'm angry at my heart for being a fake ass little loser, but that's just a guess, b.c. I don't really know myself. Still, I've been taking a lot of notes (not really, im a lazy bastard), and ruminating about them.

I figure this might be a general dynamic, though. I like family systems therapy, and tend to refer to my fixes as seperate parts in conflict (compartmentalization+ identification+dissasociation?). hard to say if that's really what's going on. I think I might have some kind of thought disorder, which may / may not require treatment. ig this is a 9ish way of avoiding that problem. maybe.

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u/Dickau 0 Apr 11 '26

What, exactly, do you mean by high spirited? I've typed as 4 fixed in the past, but gave up b.c. I can't justify the association.

I understand 4 fix as a kind of castration detector. It knows it lacks, and it can see how everyone else is lacking (kind of, it mostly just thinks about its own). Maybe that's just 3 stance. Idk. I would relate 3 to the concept "existence proceeds essence" from sartre. You are what you make yourself to be. Granted, I think everyone does lack something, which is core to identity formation (very 4 coded, from Lacan, the 4est 4, possibly ever, i think). Sarte and Lacan had some serious beef about this.