Bodil Bredsdorff 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.

Bodil Bredsdorff is relatively extroverted and 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.

Bodil Bredsdorff resists any project she will be unable to lead herself, according to her own individual direction.

Bodil Bredsdorff lives in a world in constant contact with her dreams and subconscious. She cannot live without love, and, like water which flows into and takes on the shape of the vessel which contains it, she is always ready to submerge herself in another person. Stirred by forces she does not control, she may be aroused by passions which are impervious to the restraints of reason and logic. She is an emotive creature in harmony with the flow of her feelings, impulses, and urges.

Bodil Bredsdorff is characterized by numerous contradictions and tensions which balance each other out and endow her with a stable, well-tempered character. Indeed, they are especially likely to protect her from frustrations and, in terms of reality, will enable her to acquire a certain social and professional success without too much effort on her part. At that point, she must be careful not to take on too many responsibilities. Her confidence in her ability to accomplish things may make her spread herself too thin.