Blathnaid Murphy 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.

Blathnaid Murphy leads a life which is open to the outside world. Her personal consciousness is forged by the heat of outer events. She is inclined to adopt the most objective viewpoint possible to be pragmatic and perhaps even materialistic.

Blathnaid Murphy became involved in social affairs out of a sense of duty, but found that she couldn’t lead any project herself. She identifies herself with the activity of contributing to social causes, and tries to understand herself through this involvement.

Blathnaid Murphy thought, intuition, and inner perceptions predominated in her psyche. Open and curious, optimistic and enthusiastic, she was eager to participate in everything happening around her. Her affections were lively and spontaneous, but may be more intellectual than sensual. In a partner, she would seek a source of mutual spiritual or artistic inspiration. Light-hearted and perhaps even fickle, she never allowed herself to be overcome by outer realities or emotions. In its most exaggerated form, her buoyancy borders on indifference.

You work hard to understand other people’s feelings, but you find it difficult to empathize with them. You are not insensitive, but you are puzzled by your own emotions. You see 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, you may appear to be hard or aloof. You might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as you seek special individuals to bond with. If you were able to accept and understand your own emotions, you would have an easier time grappling 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 even be the first to deny that such needs are real. As a result, your dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although you offer conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure you out of your emotional bubble, you are always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because your loneliness and fear are so unbearable.