Enneagram Type 8

Passion: Lust

Intense, gusto, contact, sensory-motor disposition, passionately in favor of lust/hedonism in life, need to prove themselves/that things deemed "bad" are not that bad, need stimulation/excitement (propensity to boredom), impatient, impulsive, pleasure in fighting for pleasure, pain (of others or of themselves in overcoming obstacles) becomes pleasure when they satisfy their impulses.

Fixation: Rebellion

 Revolutionary activists, strongly opposed to authority/traditional education. Living in an oppressive society, rebellion constitutes fighting for what is most natural for one to follow, their own impulsive desires, especially for pleasure.

Defense Mechanism: Counter-introjection

Spitting out of bad objects or the transformation of bad objects into good ones. The E8 defends against being called a bad or "immoral" person by reasoning that if following one's desires is "bad," then bad is the new good. Insensitivity, remorseless.

Basic Traits:

Punitive, dominant, insensitive, exhibitionist, conning, cynicism, autonomy, sensory-motor dominance.

Theory

The ego cycle constituting E8's character is Lust (passion) and Rebellion (fixation) which perpetuates the propagation of lust. Being situated at the top of the Enneagram in the gut triad, this is a type whose passion has a tendency to dehumanize themselves out of a need to numb themselves out to existential suffering. Lust is a search for an intensity in life that will drown out the noise of an empty existence, becoming characters who take from others as much as they need to take, building a thick psychological wall around them so that nothing passes through. This is their way of achieving artificial satisfaction, barreling through life with intensity and insensitivity. However, underlying this, and subsequently motivating it, is an orientation to existential indolence, which turns the E8 into a visceral and realistic character.

The lustful type desiring impulse release above all things was born into a world that desired to control impulses at the outset. While others may be more trustful of society and of the status quo, the E8 gives the deciding weight of its actions to its natural impulsive desires, like a child, and will go against whoever supposes to hinder them. Hence the fixation of rebellion arises, it is a rebellion fixated completely on protecting the right to live according to one's impulses and desires, and stems from having to fight for this right very early on in childhood. They do not allow themselves to be weak or vulnerable, it is shunned to the farthest limit in the unconsciousness, because this weakness would imply an incapability in getting what they want and in turn becomes a threat to their ego. Just as the E9 numbs out with redundancies and daily tasks, the E8 numbs their weaknesses by lustfully engaging in intense stimuli. 

They are in fact anti-intellectual characters, which is not to say that they are unintelligent, but that they rebel against the intellectuality of institution and abstain from abstraction or mental obscuration. This rebellion against intellectuality may include institutions such as schools, government, tradition, and so on, which can all fall under the category of "intellectual," and this altogether conveys the idea that the E8 rebels against symbols of fatherhood, which is the person they often fight against in childhood, because fatherhood represents not only intellectual institution but also authoritarianism and impulse-control. However, the E8 is not often plagued by enduring complexes other than their dominating ego-cycle, they are realistic and immediate in their decisions.

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