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Enneagram Type 5

Source: Joseph Simone

Key Traits

Defence mechanism: Isolation, deal with anxiety by isolating feelings from thoughts

Thinking: cognitive orientation, replace living with reading, mental classification/organization, connect with others through sharing knowledge

Emotional Detachment: unconscious interference with the generation of feelings

Fear of Engulfment: hold onto boundaries, fear of being “used up” by others, guarding their instinctual resources

Autonomy: self-sufficiency rationalizes their distancing from others

Hypersensitivity: they detach from emotional pain because they are sensitive to it; guarding against loneliness, fear, emptiness

Alien: unable to identify with others or humanity, off-beat ideas that seem normal, pseudo-autism

Shadow/Lost Self: blind spot to their emotions and ability to love

Core fears: Intrusion, emptiness, ignorance, surplus, depletion, being fully embodied, annihilation, not existing, obligation

Wants Mental Discovery

Character

Like 4, 5 is another type that people often mistype as. Normally, it’s 9’s with 5 in the tritype or 6w5’s that will relate to 5, or anyone that relates to being “intelligent.” It’s important to note that not all 5’s are automatically smart and any other type can be extremely intelligent or not.

Being part of the fear triad or the head centre, the type 5 structure is based on using cognition to observe reality from a safe vantage point of invisibility. Existing too much, being too involved, allowing oneself to be wet and raw is not an option for 5’s. 5’s see things about them including people from a cognitive lens, as if looking at everything through x-ray glasses. They cut right to the bones of people while forgetting to pay attention to the flesh and heart. This x-ray vision/flesh-blindness includes themselves.

5’s usually have a “thing(s),” that they care about, a thing that they explore to the most extreme depths of knowledge, a thing that they spend most of their waking hours researching, theorizing, practising, etc. They are identified with these interests and can have trouble communicating with others about anything else. Most types say they hate small talk, but 5’s don’t know what it is. Other types can have intense interests as well, but 5’s have a certain awkwardness about relating to the outside world.

5’s want to shut off everything else and send extra voltage into their minds at the expense of their bodies. They often feel like “ghosts” in the way they are so out of touch with their flesh body. They have an impressive ability to understand things around them, but to others, their ideas can sometimes seem “upside down” or off point. They will definitely trust themselves over others or society, and unlike 6’s, they do not feel the pressure of outside influences. They have a certain quirkiness and are clever in the areas that interest them.

Emotional involvement or indulging in inner states (like 4’s) is switched off so they can be in their cognitive space. These emotions and latent fear and anxiety from the head centre cause very secret insecurities and emotions that most others wouldn’t notice. This even further causes them to pull away from others and detach from themselves to not be engulfed by the wetness of reality. The world desires to much from them, and this causes them to be somewhat minimalist in their desires. They withhold themselves in every way, even cognitively. They communicate in secrets, like wearing a specific item that only someone with a particular knowledge would notice.

Because 5’s bypass their emotional centre in their communications with people, they lose confidence in their ability to relate and connect. This causes them to hide further, and in a cycle, the less time they spend with others, the harder it is to relate to others. They rely even more on the head centre to understand others, learning and observing from a detached place. If they don’t know enough, it’s not safe to come out of hiding (literally or figuratively).

Instinctual Stacking

The stacking that flows the most WITH 5:

-SP/SX

The stacking that flows the most against 5:

-SX/SO, SO/SX

Lines of Movement

5 moves to 8:

Positive: get in touch with body and out of their heads, trust their instinct, become spontaneous and assertive, use anger to motivate them rather than shying away from it

5 moves to 7:

Negative: become disorganized and distractible, take on too many things at once

Comparisons with other types

5 vs 1: Both competency types, 1’s care more about standards for all, 5’s are removed from other’s needs and don’t follow rules, both rational but with 1’s it’s more about morality and self-control, 5’s find it hard to extravert

5 vs 2:They both are blind to their own emotions at times, 2 is emotionally wet and 5 is dry, 2’s love people, 5’s avoid them

5 vs 3: Both competency types, 3’s better at self-promotion and being extraverted, 5’s aren’t good at knowing what others want from them

5 vs 4: 4’s indulge inner feelings and states searching for an identity, 5’s indulge inner thoughts searching for understanding

5 vs 6: 5’s are comfortable being completely separate from others, they have differing views, 6’s wrestle with counterphobia and fear when they withdraw or go up against others, 5’s love knowledge for the sake of it, 6’s are searching for truths, 5’s aren’t great with people and 6’s usually have a natural friendliness, 5’s can be intellectually elitist, 6’s generally avoid elitism, 5’s are not reactive, 6’s are especially sensitive to power structures and injustices

5 vs 7: 5’s don’t want to world to suck their energy, 7’s have boundless energy to taste life

5 vs 8: 5’s will periodically feel overwhelmed by hidden feelings, 8’s are better at squashing them, 5’s are out of touch with their bodies and impulses, 8’s indulge them

5 vs 9: Both have the capacity for introspection and great intellect, 5’s are out of touch with their bodies, 9’s are over-identified with their body, yet also numb to it, 5’s are attracted to sometimes “unseemly” or grotesque topics, 9’s can be with 4 or 5 in tritype or with SX, but they still prefer a sense of emotional calm, 5’s will explore what makes them uncomfortable, 5’s do not lash out latent anger, but experience anxiety, 9’s have trouble moving out into the world or “caring” about anything, 5’s have trouble allowing the world to take their energy, 5’s have a boundary up with people, 9’s unconsciously merge with others, 5’s are not naturally accommodating, 9’s are

Wings

5 wing 4:

5 hiddenness and cerebral orientation from a place of 4 aesthetics and negativity

not friendly, existential, double withdrawn, inaccessible

often attracted to macabre or grotesque topics

emotionally intense internally, more heart centre influence, highly inward

more focused on the aesthetics of knowledge rather than strict systematizing and discovery like 5w6

ex. Kurt Cobain, Lord Byron, Thom Yorke

5 wing 6:

5 hiddenness and cerebral orientation from a place of 6 discovery and mental energy

focused on discovery and investigation, feel like they’ve examined the world more than others

more systematizing and methodical, scientific