Andrea Kelly experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Andrea Kelly does not seek contact with others. She is reluctant to team up with other people in any way. Andrea Kelly attempts to free herself from any outside influence and is eager to leave her personal imprint on the world around her. Often, due to her lack of perspective in relation to other people, Andrea Kelly rebuffs their help and cooperation on projects. It is only by working and acting independently that Andrea Kelly can accomplish her goals and ambitions.

Andrea Kelly contributed to important social causes or collective ideals, but she kept her individual identity intact. For this reason, although she may become personally involved in social affairs, she was likely to resist any project she would be unable to lead herself according to her own individual direction. Andrea Kelly identified herself with an activity with social implications and attempted to know herself through this activity.

Andrea Kelly thinks, intuits, and perceives things primarily through her mind. She is open and curious, optimistic and enthusiastic, and eager to participate in everything that happens around her. Her affections are lively and spontaneous, but may be more intellectual than sensual. In a partner, Andrea would seek a source of mutual spiritual or artistic inspiration. Light-hearted and perhaps even fickle, she never allows herself to be overcome by outer realities or emotions. In its most exaggerated form, Andrea’s buoyancy borders on indifference.

Andrea Kelly works harder than others to understand other people’s feelings. But this seeming lack of empathy and compassion for others simply mirrors her own difficulty in understanding her own feelings and emotional needs. Andrea sees the emotional world as a foreign terrain, perhaps fraught with hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present more drawbacks than advantages. As a result, she might appear to be hard or aloof. Andrea might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as she seeks special individuals to bond with. If Andrea were able to accept and understand her own emotions, she would have an easier time grappling with other people’s feelings. Andrea has a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. Andrea might even be the first to deny that such needs are real. As a result, Andrea’s dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although Andrea offers conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure her out of her emotional bubble, she is always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because her loneliness and fear are so unbearable.