Personality traits of Enneagram type 5: Ennea-type V - Seeking Wholeness through Isolation
A psychiatrist named Claudio Naranjo evolved Oscar Ichazo's ego-types into the Enneagram personality types as we use them today. Naranjo largely based the types on Ichazo's passions.
Naranjo outlined the following trait structure for type 5 (Ennea-type V) in his books Ennea-type Structures and Character and Neurosis.
- Seeking Wholeness through Isolation - Avarice and Pathological Detachment
- Retentiveness
- Not Giving
- Pathological Detachment
- Fear of Engulfment
- Autonomy
- Feelinglessness
- Postponement of Action
- Cognitive Orientation
- Sense of Emptiness
- Guilt
- High Superego
- Negativism
- Hypersensitivity
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