Making a virtue of necessity: always strong and brave

For people of other characters, the display of tireless activity—the display of energy of the Sexual 6—is surprising.

21.C. Naranjo, Character and Neurosis, p. 252.

The relationship with disease deserves special mention. Unable to contact with vulnerability—which would make him feel weak and unworthy—he manages to avoid contact with himself or self-awareness to the point of neglecting healthy lifestyle habits and bodily needs related to rest, including even the acknowledgment of fever.

Illness—one's own or someone else's—puts him in contact with a lack of control: the chaos and unpredictability of life are hardly tolerable because they are linked to insecurity and fear. Then, either he will try to ignore reality by putting his head under the wing (only for a few hours), or, realizing that this is not possible, he will quickly face it, attacking on all fronts without truce to solve whatever is within his control (and what is not, too). It is then that the prone dynamics of the character lead him to anticipate, to try to have everything foreseen in a magical attempt to mitigate or, if possible, eliminate the risks of existence. This is the ultimate intention of the force.

The Sexual 6 is capable of hard work and extreme physical tests—often in sports—remaining unaware of fatigue and insensitive to pain. This tenacity, which reinforces his narcissism and convinces him of his ability to face any type of attack, can mistake him for a Self-Preservation E4. The difference is that while the E4's tenacity is motivated by feeling capable of suffering, the counterphobic's tenacity is due to not feeling pain and fear.

The Sexual 6 defends himself and also provides protection to those he considers weak and needy. Courage has the grace of comparison: one is brave if compared to another who is less so, or not as much. In addition, he finds in protection a way of being in a relationship—a way that would be much more difficult for him to establish through love or tenderness.