Instinctual Variant

Each enneagram has six subtypes comprising of combinations of its instinctual variants: self-preservation (sp), social (so), and sexual/one-to-one (sx) labels, with the most dominant instinct first followed by the second highest (eg. sp/so). The third, unmentioned instinct is called the tertiary instinct and is typically underdeveloped or a blindspot. Instinctual variants correspond directly with the core enneagram. Each enneagram has its own counter-type instinctual variant which deals with the enneagram fears and desires differently than the other two (eg. the countertype of enneagram 6 is the sx dominant variant).

E5 Conservation: Refuge
The need to withdraw is a clear characteristic for the five conservation. But keep in mind that each subtype of the E5 has something of that: some need to retreat. In the case of the conservative, passion has a lot to do with finding refuge, erecting high walls that separate him from a world that can invade him, that can take him out of a precious little world that hides inside. The idea of self-preservation becomes clearer if we imagine them as staunch supporters of cave retreat. The E5 conservation extremely limits his needs and desires, since each wish could mean a dependency status for him. Like each conservation subtype, it is also linked to survival and the concrete, attached to objects and personal space; but like E5, which is the most mental of mental characters, it is in thought, in incessant reflection on how to survive and live by limiting external disturbances, that it finds its greatest refuge.”

Description of all the subtypes:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/962529038180704286/974338712089526413/Enneagram_Subtypes_according_to_Claudio_Naranjo_1_1_2.pdf

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Pub: 15 Oct 2022 07:29 UTC
Edit: 15 Oct 2022 07:30 UTC
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