Ben Marshall experienced his inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by his involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generated.

Ben Marshall approaches the other people in the room cautiously. He isn’t used to working with others, and he’s not sure how he’s going to fair. However, he knows that if he wants to achieve his goals, he’ll have to overcome his hesitation and get to work.

Ben Marshall contributes to important social causes or collective ideals, but retains his individual identity. For this reason, although he may become personally involved in social affairs, he is likely to resist any project he will be unable to lead himself, according to his own individual direction. He identifies himself with an activity with social implications and attempts to know himself through this activity.

Ben Marshall needs to assert his originality. He is individualistic and independent and lives life according to his own rules. People and things matter to him only insofar as they relate to him, and he ignores or disregards any annoyances he may encounter. His passions are lively and ardent, and he truly loves to give. He is endowed with great authenticity and can be quite generous, as long as he is aware that others admire him.

You work hard to understand other people’s feelings, but you find it difficult to empathize with them. You see the emotional world as a foreign place, perhaps dangerous, and you are baffled by your own emotions. If you were able to understand your own emotions, you would have a easier time connecting with other people’s feelings. You have a strong desire for emotional independence and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. You might also be the first to deny that those needs exist. This makes you dependent on others, and it is unconscious. Because it is seen as a threat, it is repressed. In reality, though, you are always making half-conscious forays into the emotional world, because your loneliness and fear are so overwhelming.