Enneatype 9 – Sloth

By Laziness is meant the laziness of the conscience. Having a passion for Sloth means having the motivation to maintain a low level of consciousness so that no stimulus, emotional or environmental, can conflict with a status quo or pre-constituted balance. Faced with the loss of the meaning of life, the E9 reacts with spiritual and psychic indolence, a "deafness towards the spirit and loss of the sense of being to the point of not even knowing the difference: a spiritual exhaustion" (C. Naranjo, “Character and neurosis”).

Energies are invested in external action that tends to compulsively resolve any type of conflict or confusion, without said action being developed at a cognitive level or related to internal needs and their emotional valence; all conflict is annulled through the loss of interiority.

The E9 is, in general, a person who, from childhood, was forced to put into practice a kind of numbness so as not to come into contact with the child's wound, which has not been considered or seen as such. It is about a child who has had to deeply renounce his nature and contact with himself, seeking to fill his existential emptiness through confluence with the other and putting himself at the service of the needs of others. The incessant doing of him hides a deep sense of not being suitable or important to anyone. He reacted to the lack of care and recognition by identifying himself with the maternal role, with the aim of taking care of the mother herself (and often of the whole family) and only then could he take care of himself and have a place in the world.

Faced with the pain of separation, the E9 denies the separation itself, since it has no conscience and, above all, does not differentiate the feeling of an I from the conscience of a you. If there is no separation between you and me, illusorily there will be no possibility of being abandoned either.

In order to maintain this lack of differentiation, the E9 demonstrates a considerable rejection of introspection and change; develops a lifestyle aimed at self-forgetfulness (fixation). At the behavioral level, it carries out distracting actions such as abuse at food or at work, or filling and accumulation activities even at an intellectual or work level, such as reading or spending hours in front of the television.

It performs its activities like a robot and without complaining of fatigue, showing a high degree of anesthesia, even on a physical level. He does not listen to the needs or the pains of the body and neglects the aesthetic aspect.