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The Enneagram is a tool to understand personalities. It is often used together with MBTI, which is a tool to understand the interaction of the person with the surroundings.
 You can read more about the Enneagram in English or more deeply in German. The tool is usually shown as the symbol on the right, a enneagram (the geometric shape) which shows the nine personality types this tool postulates.
 I am a a Fourth: Romantics, Individualists, Aesthetes
Fours are driven by the desire to understand themselves and find a place in the world. They often fear that they have no identity or personal significance. Fours embrace individualism and are often profoundly creative and intuitive and at best they are very humane. However, they have a habit of withdrawing to internalize, searching desperately inside themselves for something they never find and creating a spiral of depression. Ego fixation: melancholy
Holy idea: originality
Passion: envy
Virtue: equanimity
Stress point: Two (I will behave like a Two under Stress)
Security point: One (I will behave like a One when feeling secure and relaxed)  The Stress Personality: When I am stressed I tap into the negative aspects of a One: Reformers, Judges, Perfectionists They also tend to dissociate themselves from their flaws or what they believe are flaws (such as negative emotions) and can become hypocritical and hyper-critical of others, seeking the illusion of virtue to hide their own vices. The greatest fear of Ones is to be flawed and their ultimate goal is perfection. Ego fixation: resentment
Holy idea: perfection
Passion: anger
Virtue: serenity  The Security Personality: When I am relaxed I behave like a Two: Helpers, Givers, Caretakers
Twos, at their best, are compassionate, attentive, generous and caring... . Twos want, above all, to be loved and needed and fear being unworthy of love. Ego fixation: flattery
Holy idea: freedom
Passion: pride
Virtue: humility
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