By Judith Searle

The Literary Enneagram offers a new perspective on such characters as:
 

Peter Pan	Scarlett O'Hara
Scrooge	Madame Bovary
Hamlet	Clarice Starling
Jay Gatsby	Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Dalloway	Bridget Jones
Othello	King Lear
Lady Macbeth	T.S. Garp
Blanche du Bois	Captain Ahab
Molly Bloom	Walter Mitty
Humbert Humbert	Anna Karenina
Holden Caufield	Holly Golightly
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 Monthly
 

ISBN: 
1-55552-107-X
$23.95
 PB / 2.0 lb.