Thank you for posting this. Smiles. I came across it at the perfect time as I’ve been thinking about the role of roles, as it were. Especially in regards to a friend that has been fighting with me for the better part of a year now. Quite obviously, I’m looking for something I may be missing and her and I are both trauma victims who both like to deny the impacts of said trauma. Ha ha, that didn’t end well.
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Originally Posted by bide
Thank you for this! 
In addition to taking on those roles, I can recognize displacement of them at the same time, setting up 'actors' in the dialogue between the roles. It's hard to explain... using toys to express it as a child would be similar, but how that evolves into adulthood...
I wonder if it is useful to associate the three roles in that triangle with the enneagram 'centers':
Enneagram Gut Center - Perpetrator
Concerned with: Justice
Seeking: Autonomy
Underlying Issue: Anger
Enneagram Feeling Center - Rescuer
Concerned with: Image
Seeking: Attention
Underlying Issue: Shame
Enneagram Thinking Center - Victim
Concerned with: Strategies
Seeking: Security
Underlying Issue: Fear
Enneagram Centers of Intelligence - Enneagram Explained
The idea is that everyone has a 'core' identity in one of the centers, but incorporates all of them at one time or another.
That seems to fit well. |
This got my attention, I love the Enneagram and have been reading/otherwise studying it on and off for a few years now. I want to think about this more, I have plenty of ideas about this kind of thing floating around...