Enneagram Type 7

Passion: Gluttony
An order of values that puts pleasure above everything else. A feeling of present insufficiency that seeks fulfillment in the escape towards satisfaction, pleasure and enthusiasm, that results in an intolerance to pain, negativity or frustration. Savoring without digesting: taking from the world only its most exciting and tasty aspects, and especially rejecting what causes pain.

Fixation: Self-indulgence

The cognitive support for gluttony which allows the E7 to replicate the relationship with their parents in their relationship with other people. Using words and creative fantasies they change the perceptive reality of other people to suit their desires, creating a permissive environment where the E7's selfish insatiability appears acceptable to others.

Defense Mechanism: Rationalization

The invention of a reason for an attitude or action the motive of which is not acknowledged. It reinterprets the reality of a situation or one's actions, focusing on positive aspects in order to justify or explain one's behavior by making it appear good and noble, thus getting around obstacles to one's pleasure as well as fleeing from consequences, setbacks and feelings of guilt.

Basic Traits: 

Hedonistic, permissive, rebellious, indiscipline, seductive, persuasive, narcissism.

Theory

The passion which defines the E7's lower emotional habit is Gluttony and the cognitive support to this passion which is the fixation is Self-indulgence. Gluttony in its religious undertones may refer more to the literal meaning of eating without satiability, while the passion of gluttony more so refers to having a sweet tooth for all of life, wanting to fill it with good experiences in order to avoid pain at all cost. The glutton chooses only that which provides an element of pleasure and satisfaction and has a neglect for everything that may provide dissatisfaction, under-stimulation, and most importantly, suffering.

In this denouncement of suffering and complete avoidance of it, the E7 forgets how to suffer and they end up cultivating an underlying anxiety which only grows more it is frustrated the more it is avoided. However, such an insatiable and selfish attitude does not exist in a void, it was brought up in a world which seeks to suppress hedonism in the name of civility. As a result, the glutton develops the fixation of self-indulgence, a means of making their gluttony acceptable to the people around them through intellect and strategy, using a verbal intelligence which is persuasive to both others and to themselves.