Alex Ikonn 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.

Alex Ikonn is oriented toward other people, their personal interests often mingle, and they are motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. Their commitments to other people are of paramount importance to their personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for them to make decisions alone. If they want to achieve inner equilibrium, they must behave in such a way that their actions yield benefits to others as well as themselves.

Alex Ikonn is attracted to interpersonal activities, but his significant need for inner security may stand in the way of his overtures to others. Since he 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.

Your psyche is dominated by two fundamentally opposed psychological tendencies. In your case, dynamic functions and a capacity to adapt to reality predominate over mental and emotional principles. Endowed with the idealism and energy of one element, and the practical resources and sensuality of the other, your personality is deeply rooted in reality while retaining a remarkable ability to set high goals and accomplish them. A deficit in the other psychological functions (thought and emotion) tends to blunt your approach to life, however; you may appear to lack subtlety and tact. If you struggle to get in touch with your deepest emotions, you might have a somewhat cold, crude vision of the world.

Although you may not necessarily notice the fact about yourself because you are so strongly engaged in actions, feelings, or material concerns, you sometimes lack sound judgment. This impairment arises from a difficulty in obtaining perspective on yourself and your life. You may be puzzled by your troubled relations with others. You must make an effort to detach yourself from your personal reaction and observe it from an objective, more distant standpoint. If not, you are likely to find yourself under stress or pressure because you did not give enough prior thought to tactics and strategy. You may also experience dissatisfaction in your intimate relationships because you might struggle to get in sync with others. You give little time or respect to anyone you see as too “intellectual,” because you resist adapting to new ideas and viewpoints. In fact, an idea that rubs you the wrong way mentally and/or emotionally may elicit an explosive reaction. Self-analysis can be challenging for you and you tend to refuse to develop a solid, permanent idea of yourself – and this plays a lot of tricks on you.

You work hard to understand the feelings of others, but you find it difficult to empathize and care for others. You see the emotional world as a foreign territory, full of hidden dangers. Becoming more familiar with it would only bring with it drawbacks, so you may appear hard and insensitive. You might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as you seek out special individuals to bond with. If you could accept and understand your own emotions, you would have a easier time dealing with the emotions of others. You have a strong desire for emotional independence, and might be the first to deny that someone else’s emotional needs are real. As a result, your dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as a threat, it is repressed. In reality, however, you are always making tentative, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because your loneliness and fear are so overwhelming.