IN PROGRESS--summary; comments to followThis came out just before the appearance of the DSMIV. The clinical categories are only the extreme ones.
E1 Obsessive Personality Disorder. Confusion with E6 subtype in which duty is so much in the foreground that it is a compulsive personality. Hamlet is an example of Suspicious Personality (E6). The basis is fear, not anger. Obsessive Personality Disorder may be more common in women in America.
E2 Histrionic Personality. But Infantile Personality was left out of DSMIII; this is sp Two. Little Dora in Dickens can't be helpful in housework; concerned with dog; treats people like dolls. Only concerned with receiving a lot of tenderness. She is tender in words but not actions. This is a form of Histrionic Personality.
E3 is the modal personality of American culture but doesn't appear in DSMIII. It's Fromm's Marketing Personality but he didn't point out that this used to be called the Hysterical Personality. Kernberg pointed out that Histrionic isn't Hysterical; Horney didn't point out that her Narcissistic Personality is Hysterical, or Fromm's Marketing Orientation (although they were very good friends.) Lowen's Narcissistic Personality is also the Hysterical Personality. The ruling passion is vanity. In women it's sexy, seductive, but not as impulsive and fleeting [as Histrionic]; there is a lot of discipline and control. Emotionality is more explosive, not ever-present. More practical, even intellectual.
E4 Self-Defeating Personality and Masochistic-Depressive are absent. Much more common in women. Way of claiming love through suffering, victimization.
Agression, vindictiveness of sx subtype is the Exceptional Cases in one of Freud's last essays. They deserve to get back from the world something that wasn't given. Quotes Shakespeare's Richard III who wanted to get back what he was entitled to by destiny.
E5 Schizoid is very well-defined and observed in DSMIII. The pathological range in the diagnostic system differs. The perception in the normal range of character in life is much more subtle but the concepts are clear and have been observed by judges. Schizotypal may be a variation of schizoid or belong to Type 6.
E6 Schizotypal's predominant trait of being bizarre he has observed more in E6 Suspicious Character than E5 (??!!) Suspicious Character is the most documented in DSMIII. The Paranoid type corresponds to sx; the one who's aggressive. The main strategy of the paranoid character is hardness and control; not tender. An aggressive suspiciousness, Popeye (strong man, muscle builder, popping eyes). Most E6 are not the strong ones but the weak ones--excessive warmth and difficulty with aggression. (Suspicious but not paranoid). The variant that cannot express hostility and is dependent on someone who is stronger: the Avoidant Character isn't a loner but one who doesn't dare to approach others. Not the schizoid; wants to approach and is dependent when he develops enough bondedness with people. Dependent Personality in DSMIII is "tell me what to do" but could also be E9.
E7 Narcissistic. Battle in psychiatry in the use of the term. (There is Type 2, 3 and 4 narcissism; there is 5 Narcissism; paranoid E6 Narcissism, Reich's Phallic Narcissism). The Glutton's narcissism comes from intellectual efforts to appear superior; a sense of entitlement, low-key exhibitionism (saintship by not pretending to be a saint). Category was inntroduced in DSMIII but Kernberg and Kohut's Narcissism is Type 5; E7 has little guilt and a good self-image and a lot of spontaneity.
E8 Antisocial. The antisocial of the lusty is rebellious in general; rebelliousness can be said to be antisocial. Sadistic has been proposed. Running other people over and being exploitative because they push so hard but not aware of it. (Character and Neurosis--Enneatype Structures is a fragment of it).
E9 "over-adjusted" Part of American culture--a happy character. (Passive Aggression in DSMIII may be a trait rather than a type unless it's our Type Nine. The form of aggression of one who doesn't have access to aggression.
??) Defense mechanism of Altruistic Resignation/Renunciation. Mother with no needs, only for her son. Kretchner (cyclothymics). Abulic type--no will.
Not represented in DSMIII. Passive-Aggressive, Dependent.
Protoanalysis: a particular form of the deficiency motivation (passion) is not described in DSMIII. Anger as the heart of Obsessive Compulsive isn't given, for instance.
Questions/Answers: There's a lot of Threes in America but it's a Madison Avenue type; jet set, executives. MacDonald's is E3 (contradiction). Expediency. In the Roaring Twenties (a 3 phenomenon), there was a transition from the English/New England modal personality fo E1. The Marketing Orientation (moving capital, not invested capital.) In the '60s there was a turning to E7 (The New Gamesmanship--a new kind of fast person with an agile way of handling things; the playboy). Every culture has a modal personality. There are lots of E7 in South Asia. In India there are many charlatans. I'm okay, you're okay, everything's okay. Baba Muktandanda's joke about the cancelled flight. First book on characters by a disciple of Aristotle.
Added on: Borderline condition is in DSMIII. A neurotic style beyond Kernberg's characterization embracing different styles. This is moodiness, anger, self-destructiveness, xxxxx. Either sx Four--protesting style or the other subtypes. Even in the broader meaning it belongs to E4. A factor analysis based on a population of patients more than neurotic, less than psychotic showed traits corresponding to two of the E4 subtypes. There is also a common antecedent of incest in borderlien personalities. He finds incest to be common among people of Enneatype Four.
??) Defense mechanism of Altruistic Resignation/Renunciation. Mother with no needs, only for her son. Kretchner (cyclothymics). Abulic type--no will.
