Juanpa Zurita experiences his inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by his involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Juanpa Zurita’s tendency to introversion inclines him to live inside himself, amid his inner world. He is apt to listen to his subjectivity, his intuition, and his secret opinions rather than reason and logic.

While Juanpa Zurita is attracted to interpersonal activities, his significant need for inner security may stand in the way of his overtures to others. Since Juanpa Zurita is highly receptive to other people’s inner natures, he seeks tight bonds with others. He unconsciously needs their psychological support in his quest for himself. Were Juanpa Zurita to evaluate his psychological development, he would place more value upon human warmth, intimacy, and the need to share than on intellectual understanding or personal freedom of expression.

Juanpa has a tendency to identify with others. He forms friendships easily and naturally and enjoys participating in other people’s lives. Sociable, he enjoys being seen and appreciate popularity and recognition. Solitude bores him. His life and personal relations are in sync with his friendships and outer events. Most often, he shares the opinion of others.

Juanpa Zurita 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.

Juanpa Zurita works harder than others to understand other people’s feelings. But this seeming lack of empathy and compassion for others simply mirrors Juanpa’s own difficulty in understanding his own feelings and emotional needs. Juanpa is not insensitive, but he is baffled by his own emotions. Juanpa 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, Juanpa may appear to be hard or aloof.

Juanpa might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as he seeks special individuals to bond with. If Juanpa were able to accept and understand his own emotions, he would have an easier time grappling with other people’s feelings.

Juanpa has a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. Juanpa might even be the first to deny that such needs are real.

As a result, Juanpa’s dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although Juanpa offers conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure him out of his emotional bubble, Juanpa is always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because his loneliness and fear are so unbearable.