The Godfather: A Cautionary Study in Enneagram Type Eight
This video explores the three subtypes of the Enneagram Type Eight using three main characters from the Godfather... Don Vito Corleone (Social/Navigating), Sonny Corleone (Sexual/Transmitting), and Michael Corleone (Self-Preservation/Preserving).
From "The Complete Enneagram" by Beatrice Chestnut...
"The three subtypes of Type Eight express the passion of lust in three distinct ways. Self-Preservation Eights directly and powerfully pursue the things they need in order to survive. Social Eights have a need to protect others and go up against those who commit injustices. Sexual Eights are passionate and charismatic characters who go against social conventions in a provocative way."
Terminology differs between Enneagram teachers. Historically and today, most people refer to the Instinctual Variants/Biases as Social, Sexual, and Self-Preservation. Some substitute "One to One" for Sexual, although I personally think this mis-represents the nature of the Sexual "instinct", and is based more in an aversion/misunderstanding what "Sexual" actually means.
Teachers Mario Sikora and Maria Jose Munita of Awareness to Action use the alternate names of Navigating, Transmitting, and Preserving, which I think do a better job of capturing what each "Instinct" is actually going for.
For a deeper dive, check out the Awareness to Action podcast ("The Enneagram in a Movie") episode 4, where they discuss The Godfather and Type Eight in more detail.
https://awarenesstoaction.com/s1e4-th...