Type Script

Type-Script

Once the Center has been over-activated in response to the wound, it begins to form a looped response pattern — a psychological structure that attempts to resolve the loss of stability using the same tools that were shaped by the injury itself. This is where the Type-Script emerges.

There are three core enneagram types in each center of intelligence. Each Enneagram type follows a distinct internal sequence — a three-part script made up of the Object Relation, the Hornevian Group, and the Harmonic Triad. This defines the exact relationship that the individual forms with their center of intelligence. 

Object Relations

Interprets the nature of loss and the foundational relationship one has to reality.

Frustration (+): “Something essential is missing — I must fix, chase, or perfect it.”

Rejection (–): “This need disrupts clarity — I must reduce, control, or go without it.”

Attachment (=): “I need to preserve connection by finding the bridge between my need for sovereignty and capacity to adapt — without it, I lose orientation.”

Hornevian Group

Describes how the psyche moves and utilizes energy to get its needs met.

Assertive (+): Moves against the world to take what is valued — takes up space, imposes will, reclaims ground.

Withdrawn (–): Moves away from the world to protect what is valued — self-sources, pulls back to avoid contamination or exposure. 

Superego (=): Moves in response to the world — receives value through building transactional relationships. Correctness, effort, and external alignment

Harmonic Style

Regulates emotion and frames reactions to what has happened; a means of interpreting outcomes when expectations aren’t met.

Positive (+): Reframes or bypasses pain and negativity to prioritize the silver-lining that maintains momentum through optimism. 

Reactive (–): Amplifies emotion and disagreement — seeks the unseen truth through confrontation or removal of falsities.  

Competency (=): Suppresses emotional chaos and biases — prioritizes control, function, and performance to operate better.

This is a self-reinforcing circuit. The psyche begins with a specific wound to the Center, filters that wound through its inborn motivation, and generates a strategy to resolve it.  With repetition, this strategy becomes a well-tested methodology that both serves as a lens to understand the world and means to reaffirm the core type’s disconnect. 

In essence:

• The Type Story is your interpretation of what life is and what must be done to stabilize the loss.

• It reflects what the child concluded about their place in the world based on what was missing and how they had to adapt.

• The story becomes self-reinforcing, selecting information that supports its worldview and rejecting that which contradicts it.

The personality is an emergent structure that is then crafted on top of the life-script. and like any script or program, it runs in the background with a mixture of false and accurate beliefs until it’s brought into conscious view, line by line.