Quote Originally Posted by Nyx View Post
No. You mentioned an IEI without Fi. And that's exactly what I explained, something that resembles base Fe (ignoring Fi), which has little in common with enneagram 4 or 5.

Creative Fe on the other hand, as Aylen posted, does a lot more individual emotional processing and has a lot in common with enneagram 4 and very little to do with being emotionally disconnected (enneagram 5).

Basically, your reasoning is insufficient to justify the claim that xEIs can be enneagram 5.
An xEI with neglected Fi will still have Fe creative. I never said anything about Fe base.