The Literary
Enneagram : Characters from the Inside Out
By Judith Searle
The
Literary Enneagram offers a new perspective on such characters
as:
Peter Pan |
Scarlett O'Hara |
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Scrooge |
Madame Bovary |
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Hamlet |
Clarice Starling |
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Jay Gatsby |
Sherlock Holmes |
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Mrs. Dalloway |
Bridget Jones |
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Othello |
King Lear |
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Lady Macbeth |
T.S. Garp |
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Blanche du Bois |
Captain Ahab |
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Molly Bloom |
Walter Mitty |
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Humbert Humbert |
Anna Karenina |
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Holden Caufield |
Holly Golightly |
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The Wife of Bath |
and many more... |
As entertaining as it is illuminating, The
Literary Enneagram offers a fresh version of the standard "Great
Books" course, using characters from literature to show the inner dynamics
of the nine Enneagram styles and their variations.
FOR READERS OF FICTION: The
Literary Enneagram offers a richer understanding of literary
characters and valuable insights into ways their psychology relates to
the reader's own personality patterns and relationships with others.
FOR STUDENTS OF LITERATURE: The
Literary Enneagram offers an exciting new key to Western literature
through clarifying the basic psychological patterns of characters in classic
and contemporary novels, stories, and plays.
FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS: The
Literary Enneagram demonstrates simply and eloquently that the
true basis of human psychological differences lies in inner experience
rather than outer behavior. Judith Searle's work validates the Enneagram
as a universal template for human psychology by showing how characters
created by authors unfamiliar with the Enneagram conform to the character
arcs the system predicts.
FOR WRITERS: The
Literary Enneagram offers screenwriters, fiction writers, and
playwrights a power tool for character development, a template for creating
character grids, and a basis for devising character driven plot twists
that seem both inevitable and surprising.
FOR ACTORS: The
Literary Enneagram offers guidelines
for creating characters that live and breathe on stage and screen as well
as on the page. Performers who understand their own Enneagram style
can make the "type casting" that is so prevalent in the entertainment industry
work for them.
What People Say About
The
Literary Enneagram
"This book is an invaluable tool both for the novelist and for any
person who cares about literature in a serious way. Judith Searle
opens our eyes. She offers us a new way of seeing material that might
have become invisible to us because of our old ways of thinking." - Carolyn
See, author, The Handyman, Golden Days
"The Literary
Enneagram is a groundbreaking book that demonstrates the universality
of the Enneagram. Rightly understood, the nine types are more than
psychological styles, they are worldviews--and out of these emerge literature,
theater, music--all of the arts--to hold up a mirror to human nature.
This book is an important resource in a growing field. It will be
valuable to anyone seeking a more profound understanding of literary characters."
- Don Riso & Russ Hudson,
authors,The
Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types, et. al.
"In this fascinating book, Judith Searle explores the essences of
characters, giving us insights into ourselves and the people we know and
create. I strongly recommend the book for writers and actors, as
well as all who are intrigued with the complexity, diversity, and dimensionality
of our humanity." - Dr. Linda Seger, author, Creating Unforgettable
Characters
"Two-thirds of the way through this book, I realized that by understanding
it I would know which actors would like which book or screenplay, and thus
I would waste less time pursuing the wrong people. In Hollywood you
hear a lot about character arc and odd claims like 'character is story.'
With this book, you'll understand character basics, completely. It's
really a crystal lens of understanding and I'm grateful Judith wrote it."
- Skip Press, author, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting
"By seeing her characters through the lens of type, Judith skillfully
reveals an unexpected inner coherence, an illuminating consistency that
propels the human condition. Now we know a lot more about it."
- Helen
Palmer, author,
Enneagram in Love and Work, The Enneagram
Advantage, et.al.
"Both scholarly and compassionate, The Literary
Enneagram is enriched by many examples from literature along
with Searle's insightful commentary and analysis. This book makes
a definitive contribution to the Enneagram by applying it to the realm
of literature. It is not necessary to agree with all of Judith's
point of view and analyses to benefit from her work. This is one
of the fortunate aspects of literature: there are many ways to experience
authors' meanings." -David Daniels, author, Essential
Enneagram
"This book is the most comprehensive synthesis of the Enneagram in
literature. An enjoyable read both for someone familiar with the
Enneagram and for a newcomer, this book is lucid, exciting and poignant,
and shows Judith Searle to be a leading thinker and articulate writer who
knows how to bring theories to life through the vehicle of some of our
favorite literary characters." —Andrea Isaacs, Co-Editor, Enneagram
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