Benny Safdie searches for stability in life. He wants to find a firm and unchanging structure for his life, but his efforts are often vain because he is also unconsciously inhabited by the opposite desire: every time he reaches a good balance, he realizes he wants something entirely different. Life is movement, change, and perpetual instability, so stability and balance are difficult to apply to it.Become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life-by definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

Benny Safdie’s personality and behavior are liable to be disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling his psyche. Because his sensitivity is in conflict with his determination, his attitude and performance may sometimes be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, he has the feeling he has to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging his yearnings and fulfilling his ambitions. His unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of his conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage his plans. In his relationships, the images he builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, might also annoy him. He could find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Benny Safdie is extremely vigorous and energetic, and has an immense need to assert his individuality. His attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. They puzzle the people close to him, who cannot understand whether his behavior is the result of pure selfishness or merely of an excess of energy. Benny is lively, alert, and determined, but he is too easily distracted from goals by futile competition or opportunities to exhibit his power. He has a short temper and must learn to control his impulsiveness, which might expose him to a great deal of unnecessary conflict.

Benny Safdie has a taste for luxury and magnificence, for a dazzling social life and a distinguished career. When things are going well for him, he tends to think of himself as the center of the universe, an attitude which those close to him do not always appreciate. Although he is quite likely to succeed in his ambition to become wealthy and popular and lead a remarkable life in the outer world, his lack of moderation and overweening self-confidence expose him to some danger. His exaggerated optimism could create difficulties by causing him to make errors in judgment.

You are a sober and rather reserved person who may strike people as harsh and austere at times. Born into a strict and sober home, you grew up very fast, developing a strong spirit of self-sufficiency. You are often uncompromising, and have a touchy sense of your personal dignity and worth. It is almost as though you were fighting an inner battle with your father or a father figure. The psychological models you received from your father or a father figure as a result of your interaction and your own interaction with authority may not have played a major role in shaping your relationships with the outer world and society. As a result, you may have been forced to compensate for this lack with individual determination. This can sometimes lead you to be timid and hesitant. You sometimes feel as though you are only masquerading as a respectable, sober adult. You are often far too critical of yourself, and rarely feel satisfied that you are living up to your ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead you to turn down the prominent career positions for which you are fully qualified. You are aware that early success is often short-lived and fragile, and that patience and persistence are key to success, like you.

Benny Safdie, as you often do, cowers from life. Hoping for a better future or a utopian society, you passively expose yourself to adversity. However, by taking refuge in dreams, you may expose yourself to new and different experiences.

Benny Safdie is a restless and creative person with a fertile imagination, but his energy resources are not always sufficient to follow through on and accomplish his myriad of dreams. He tends to live in osmosis with his environment, and effort and action take a heavy toll on him. Usually, he understands phenomena and events intuitively, without really making any effort; so he is not in the habit of disciplining or shaping his thought processes. Like his thoughts, his personality is rather amorphous and disorganized. As a result, he may have some trouble asserting his individuality and making some personal contribution to society through his career. His tendency to shut out reality and dream impossible dreams, like his refusal of responsibility and duty, may be a source of some difficulty for him.

Benny Safdie was generally motivated by activities which applied to social needs. He tended to give the best of himself in difficult situations which required crucial choices. His ability to concentrate and his gift for solving problems by deductive reasoning were his chief resources in crisis situations or at turning points in his life.

Benny Safdie was born in Lebanon in 1952. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, and his graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. He has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1981. Safdie has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Max Planck Fellowship.

Benny Safdie maintains strong ties with his past, and it often seems difficult for him to open his heart to new people. His love affairs might exist on the surface level, because his lust and sensual desire rarely turn into a need to understand, protect, and care for the other. Moreover, it is difficult for him to meet partners who combine the ideals of the tender parent and the great lover.

Benny Safdie has a sensitive personality. He may jump to conclusions, which could disrupt relationships, as well as career plans. He is subject to cyclical energy flows and goes from periods of feverish activity to periods of withdrawal and introspection. The aggressive element in his behavior may be explained by emotional problems he may have experienced in infancy: his mother, or a mother figure, may have had an energetic and volatile personality.

Benny Safdie is a generous, affable, and communicative associate. Indeed, some people find him generous almost to a fault! He gives of himself and his resources unstintingly. Paradoxically, there are times when he is self-focused. He reacts instinctively, without taking the trouble to analyze a given situation, and is prone to misjudge. As a result, his everyday life may be riddled with a whole variety of practical problems. Indeed, he senses a conflict between his social life and his family and will sometimes find it hard to fulfill himself in both spheres at the same time. His attitude toward his private life may inhibit his ambitions for social or career expansion; at worst, society (the law) may impinge on his private life. He should be careful not to project his personal problems onto his partner. If, instead, the two of them analyzed the problem, they might be able to find opportunities to resolve it together.

Although your demeanor is cool and distant, you are extremely sensitive. In some cases, your rather austere and rigid behavior and refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved and tend to forbid yourself emotional fulfillment. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. It is difficult for your inner self to be detached from this past life, and you sometimes have trouble reconciling the image you have of yourself as an adult with the one you acquired back then. The idea you have of yourself as an individual is related to the image your parents projected onto you as a child. Nevertheless, the past is history, and you are now an adult. It should be easy for you to rid yourself of these phantoms through self-work. You have the ability to overcome your mistakes and great endurance and will power to achieve your goals. Nevertheless, you must not repress your sensitivity in order to succeed.

In Benny Safdie’s opinion, people who are insecure crave order in their lives, which makes them rigid and difficult to be around. They also have a short-sighted vision, so it takes a lot for them to adapt to a new situation. Benny thinks that people who are insecure are gifted worriers.

Benny Safdie was born in Beirut in 1955 to a family of Jewish refugees. He studied at the American University of Beirut, where he began his career as a photographer and filmmaker. He has since directed such critically acclaimed films as “Dead Man” (1995), “Beirut” (1996), “The Lebanese Connection” (1998), and “The Way We Live Now” (2000).

Benny Safdie, a person who is prone to intense emotions, enjoys sexuality and relationships which are driven by desires. He would find a career in which he is in contact with troubled people rewarding.

Benny Safdie is sensitive and compassionate, sacrificing his own interests for the benefit of others. He readily gives of himself, always seeking to help and assist. Benny is romantic and idealistic, often having trouble expressing himself clearly. However, he is capable of fully dedicating himself to the one he loves. He has a tendency to daydream and become lost in his thoughts.

Benny Safdie’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Benny distrusts his emotional urges and somewhat wary of his feelings, so he tries to rid himself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Benny Safdie is panicky about what other people think of him, and as a result, prefers to blend in with the wallpaper. However, he is full of qualities, not the least of which is devotion. He does tend to be somewhat fanatical about perfection and detail. In love, his inhibitions might cause him to pass up many opportunities. But he may also find happiness with someone who is as sensitive or shy as he is, who would understand him and make him feel seen.

As Benny Safdie, I cannot always sustain a commitment. My affairs are sometimes brief and fairly painful. I may tend to rush into relationships with people who are somewhat futile, or I may argue frequently with my partner.

You are an impassioned lover. Indeed, your heart’s concerns are one of the reasons you were born. Your personal charm and magnetic force are irresistibly seductive; unfortunately, your attempts at conquest don’t always lead to the fulfillment and satisfaction of your desires. This is because of your impulsiveness and impatience, which may sometimes lack tact and delicacy. As a result, it can be difficult for you to maintain stable and harmonious relationships. Your emotional behavior is subject to a conflict between your quest for love and your need to satisfy your lust. This inner contradiction is a sign of your tendency to derive pleasure from suffering – either your own or that of your partner. The relationship thus becomes the setting for a kind of power struggle, weakening it as a source of psychological equilibrium. Nevertheless, you could sublimate this difficulty through artistic expression.

Benny Safdie
You are hypersensitive and tend to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of your first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. You are exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. You will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. You are sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to her. You usually hide your emotional reactions or do not even allow them to reach the level of your consciousness, in an effort to protect your sensitivity, which you see as your weak point. You are fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, you will disguise your strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside you, and you feel unworthy of the love which is lavished on you. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of your desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, your fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of your romantic life will be more rewarding. In any case, if you want to experience a harmonious love relationship and gratify yourself emotionally, the defense mechanisms you have elaborated to make yourself inaccessible to others will have to be dismantled.

Benny Safdie has a rather irrational mind and a voracious intellect, which is usually subject to the rule of his prolific imagination. Although he is likely to have flashes of intuition which may prove to be correct, his thought processes are sometimes messy and confused. His mind, which is oriented in many different directions at the same time, is ruled by his emotions and feelings. In tune with psychic and parapsychic phenomena, his thinking requires only the adjunct of structure to rise from the level of a blurry, uncertain, undifferentiated mass to that of a really significant vision with a grip on the real world.

Benny Safdie tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. His thoughts are usually structured, and his reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.