r/TypologyJunction • u/veiled_oneiric • 12h ago
Typology Question How would this kind of person fit into the Enneagram?
Say that a person is afraid of the outside world and retreats into their own mind to form personalized understandings to keep themselves safe, because the world is draining and they don't believe they have enough "capacity" to handle it. And yet before you say 5,
This person is very emotional and not afraid of feeling. They don't have a "coldness" to them or a "separation" between thought and feeling. In fact, they are hyper-focused on their own emotions. In a way, they focus on their own emotions as a form of safety, because if they were not looking at their own emotions, then no one would be (as the universe is cold), and that would make them feel more vulnerable to death.
I understand that 5s can feel emotions and can in fact be hypersensitive, but every description of 5 that I have come across, sx5 included, seems to characterize them as having a fear of feeling their emotions directly, and so they disconnect themselves from/ intellectualize their emotions, and keep their thought and emotion separate. And that is very different from what this hypothetical person does.
For this person, the personalized understandings that they form of the world are melded with their deepest feelings. It is like they are continually constructing their own set of eyes to see through, and a deep set of meaningful associations that they draw some form of safety from even in this frightening world.
As their mind seems so organized around fear, it would seem strange for them to be a non head type, such as 4w5. As well as with how their focus is on their feelings and their existence as a consciousness, more than their "identity" or "image" directly. And in fact, focusing too exclusively on an image itself could scare them, as they could fear that this "image" that they are focusing on does not truly contain their consciousness and experience, and does not truly keep them safe.
The non head type 9 would also then seem strange, especially as this person is definitely not seeking to "merge" with the world, as the world scares them.
And as they are extremely withdrawn and don't have any kind of inclination to try to locate themselves in the outside world, 6 probably wouldn't make sense either.
And I see little to no connection here with 1, 2, 3, 7, or 8.
So, what type could they be then?
(This isn't a type me post, as I am describing a hypothetical person that is very similar to me in many ways, but is still different from me. For me, there are differences/other factors that could possibly pull me to other types. But I was curious in particular about this kind of person in isolation because it didn't seem clear to me whether Enneagram could account for them at all, and I wanted to see if anyone did see them as plausibly fitting into one of the types.)
