• Type Four: The Individualist
• Type Four, Five Wing: The Bohemian
• Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance
• Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)
• Key Motivations:
  • Want to express themselves and their individuality
  • to create and surround themselves with beauty
  • to maintain certain moods and feelings
  • to withdraw to protect their self-image
  • to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, to attract a "rescuer."
• Examples
  • Alanis Morrisette
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Sarah McLachlan
  • Joseph Fiennes
  • Bob Dylan
  • Johnny Depp
  • Anne Rice
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Anais Nin
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Prince
  • Michael Jackson
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Meryl Streep
  • Kate Winslet
  • Edith Piaf
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Blanche DuBois A Streetcar Named Desire
• Positive Traits
  • my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
  • my ability to establish warm connections with people
  • admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
  • my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
  • being unique and being seen as unique by others
  • having aesthetic sensibilities
  • being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
• Negative Traits
  • experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
  • feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
  • feeling guilty when I disappoint people
  • feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
  • expecting too much from myself and life
  • fearing being abandoned
  • obsessing over resentments
  • longing for what I don't have

LEVELS

• Healthy Levels
  • Level 1 (At Their Best): Profoundly creative, expressing the personal and the universal, possibly in a work of art. Inspired, self-renewing and regenerating: able to transform all their experiences into something valuable: self-creative.
  • Level 2: Self-aware, introspective, on the "search for self," aware of feelings and inner impulses. Sensitive and intuitive both to self and others: gentle, tactful, compassionate.
  • Level 3: Highly personal, individualistic, "true to self." Self-revealing, emotionally honest, humane. Ironic view of self and life: can be serious and funny, vulnerable and emotionally strong.
• Average Levels
  • Level 4: Take an artistic, romantic orientation to life, creating a beautiful, aesthetic environment to cultivate and prolong personal feelings. Heighten reality through fantasy, passionate feelings, and the imagination.
  • Level 5: To stay in touch with feelings, they interiorize everything, taking everything personally, but become self-absorbed and introverted, moody and hypersensitive, shy and self-conscious, unable to be spontaneous or to "get out of themselves." Stay withdrawn to protect their self-image and to buy time to sort out feelings.
  • Level 6: Gradually think that they are different from others, and feel that they are exempt from living as everyone else does. They become melancholy dreamers, disdainful, decadent, and sensual, living in a fantasy world. Self-pity and envy of others leads to self-indulgence, and to becoming increasingly impractical, unproductive, effete, and precious.
• Unhealthy Levels
  • Level 7: When dreams fail, become self-inhibiting and angry at self, depressed and alienated from self and others, blocked and emotionally paralyzed. Ashamed of self, fatigued and unable to function.
  • Level 8: Tormented by delusional self-contempt, self-reproaches, self-hatred, and morbid thoughts: everything is a source of torment. Blaming others, they drive away anyone who tries to help them.
  • Level 9: Despairing, feel hopeless and become self-destructive, possibly abusing alcohol or drugs to escape. In the extreme: emotional breakdown or suicide is likely. Generally corresponds to the Avoidant, Depressive, and Narcissistic personality disorders.