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The Enneagram provides a description of your inner self. This description of the Enneagram types usually begins with the qualities and limitations of a type, what that type focuses on, and what your regular “thinking, feeling, acting” pattern looks like. This is also called the psychological Enneagram. It's a description of the personality structure. Psychologists (including Freud) call it the ego. In spiritual terms, it’s also called the Lower Self. In the Enneagram, this description of the ego/Lower Self is the type, or the Enneagram of passions and fixations.

The functioning of people at the psychological level is what you perceive when people are captive to their type. This applies to most people. The term captive to your type means that you actually have no freedom of choice — not in what you think, what you feel, and how you act. The lack of freedom of choice is caused by people not knowing themselves well. As a result, they have little awareness of themselves and of their automatic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. When you’re not consciously aware, you’re on automatic pilot; you don’t want to get angry, for example, but you definitely do get angry. You can't help yourself; it just happens. That is a lack of freedom of choice. You function from your Lower Self; your ego is in charge.